Our neighbour from hell ‘trapped our cat in a CAGE, made her dog poo outside our home & hounded us with frog croaks’
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A NEIGHBOUR has allegedly trapped a couple's cat in a cage, made her dog poo outside their home and harassed them with the croaks of an electronic garden frog. Wealthy barrister Tim Sheppard said he and his interpreter wife Elena Garcia-Alvarez's lives have been "devastated" by the behaviour of their neighbour Josie Hitchens.
![[Tim Sheppard and Elena Garcia-Alvarez outside Central London County Court]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/07914583378-tim-sheppard-elena-garcia-958495114.jpg?strip=all&w=674)
The employment lawyer and his wife claim they have endured years of harassment after moving into their five-bed home in Digby Crescent, Finsbury Park, in 2006. They have accused their neighbour of allegedly "trapping" their prized cat Harry in her garden, plaguing them with constant door slamming and bouncing a ball in the small hours.
![[Josie Hitchens allegedly trapped the couple's cat in a cage]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/07914583378-josie-hitchens-outside-central-958495147.jpg?strip=all&w=748)
The couple also say she "deliberately" used a tree outside their home as a toilet for her dogs and hounded them with the croaking of a motion-activated model frog. But Ms Hitchens, 56, denies the claims insisting she did not trap the cat. Her lawyers told Judge Tracey Bloom at Central London County Court that much of the case against her is groundless and based on "assumption and inference".
![[The homes of the feuding neighbours in Finsbury Park]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dark-door-behind-blue-car-958495273.jpg?strip=all&w=813)
Mr Sheppard, 56, and his wife, 55, have now gone to court in a bid to curtail acts which they say have caused them "alarm and distress". The pair are seeking an injunction to prevent further alleged harassment, plus £40,000 in damages. Mr Sheppard told the court that "problems" between the neighbours started when Ms Hitchens knocked on their front door a day or so after they moved in.
![[The pair claim Ms Hitchens encourages her dogs to urinate on a tree]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/07914583378-tree-digby-crescent-tim-958495268.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
