A pensioner has avoided jail after she sprayed ant poison into her terminally ill neighbour's eyes over a parking row and told him 'no one would believe him' because she was elderly.
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Sally Beaney, 75, 'revelled in making other people's lives very difficult' and robbed her cancer-stricken neighbour Matthew Perry of 'precious' years after they were embroiled in a dispute over a shared driveway.
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they → revel → driveway
What started as a parking dispute turned into Beaney's 'obsession to control' the parking situation outside their homes and 'culminated' in her spraying ant-killer in her neighbour's eyes.
Mr Perry, who has 'late-stage cancer', was left with swelling on his eye from 'minor chemical burns' and a 'mild corneal injury', a court heard.
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court → start → burns
But Beaney taunted her victim that nobody would believe him, because she was a '75-year-old woman', while he was a 'young 6ft1in man'.
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he → taunt → him
The pensioner admitted causing assault occasioning actual bodily harm to Mr Perry in Southampton on October 13 2025.
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pensioner → admit → October
Beaney appeared at Southampton Crown Court where she was handed a 12-month sentence suspended for two years and ordered to work unpaid for 100 hours.
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she → appear → hours
She also had a restraining order imposed.
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order → have → ?
The court heard that Mr Perry moved into the address next door to Beaney with his wife Lucy and their two children around 15 years ago.
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Perry → hear → wife
Prosecutor Gaylene Coles said: 'Mr Perry and (Beaney) are neighbours who share a driveway.
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who → say → driveway
For 15 years he believed he could park by the property.
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he → believe → property
After that notices began to appear about parking in the wrong place.
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notices → begin → place
He realised his mistake and parked in the road.
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She began to block his parking and would leave objects out to block his parking.
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She would leave plant pots out throughout the summer months.'
Sally Beaney, 75, 'revelled in making other people's lives very difficult' and robbed her cancer-stricken neighbour Matthew Perry of 'precious' years after they were embroiled in a dispute
The court heard that victim Matthew Perry moved into the address next door to Beaney with his wife Lucy and their two children around 15 years ago.
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Perry → leave → wife
Beaney taunted her victim that nobody would believe him, because she was a '75-year-old woman', while he was a 'young 6ft1in man'.
Beaney would also film the family from her home and would shout at them as they came and went, the court heard.
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court → taunt → them
Her antisocial behaviour escalated on October 13 2025, when, out of the blue, she sprayed ant-killer in Mr Perry's eyes as he left the home.
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he → escalate → home
Mr Perry was rushed to hospital where he was told he had minor chemical burns to his eyes and needed to take antibiotics and pain killers.
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he → rush → antibiotics
Speaking about his ordeal at the sentencing hearing, Mr Perry said: 'It's difficult to write this as admitting that Sally Beaney has had such an impact on our lives is exactly what we believe she wants to happen.
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she → speak → what
She's told us before that nobody will believe us because she's a 75 year old woman and I'm a young 6ft 1ins man.
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I → tell → us
I woke up with pain every morning for months and had to use antibiotics.
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If I did not have first aid training I wouldn't have had treatment straight away, I would've had to wait for the ambulance to arrive and the damage would have been a lot worse.
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damage → have → treatment
She is someone so obsessed and erratic that she's impacted every aspect of our lives.
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she → impact → lives
The last years of our lives have been taken from us.
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years → take → us
A home should be a sanctuary but even coming and going has been ruined.
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coming → come → ?
If she's willing to assault me, what could she do to my young son if he did something she didn't like?
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she → assault → something
'The stress of dealing with her has led me to have a catastrophic terminal cancer diagnosis.
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stress → deal → diagnosis
I was told if it had been noticed earlier it could have been treated but I didn't have the time to think about it.
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We feel totally trapped.
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We've been waiting for what she'll do next.
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she → wait → what
Even after being charged she has continued.
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My partner leaves the house recording on her phone in case she does something.
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she → leave → something
Before Sally Beaney started her campaign against us we were a happy hopeful family.
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we → start → us
She's left our property unsellable.
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She → leave → property
Due to her behaviour we inquired with past neighbours and even her family and they said this was normal for her.
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this → inquire → her
They said she revelled in making other people's lives very difficult.'
Defending Beaney, Edward Armitage said: 'In essence this is a dispute between two neighbours that has very regrettably spilled over into something more.
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that → say → something
She's asked me to apologise on her behalf.'
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Passing sentence, Judge Nicholas Rowland said: 'You have no previous convictions.
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For some reason you have waited until this age to commit this offence.
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'Obviously this case calls for a prison sentence - the only question is whether I suspend it.
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And it seems that due to the guidelines I have no option but to suspend it, but it is very serious.'
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