NEIGHBOUR from hell Jonathan Fieldhouse was jailed yesterday for flouting a court order by playing his electric guitar all hours of the day and night.

Harrogate magistrates jailed Fieldhouse, 26, for four months after he admitted breaching an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).

The order had been imposed in February after he had admitted causing £1,000-worth of damage to windows, plasterwork, fixtures and fittings at his flat in King Edward's Drive, Harrogate, affray, threatening behaviour and theft.

Sarah Tyrer, prosecuting, said problems for Andrew and Cerys McColl and their eight-year-old daughter, who live in a terrace house next door to Fieldhouse's flat, began soon after they returned from holiday last August to find they had a new neighbour.

Fieldhouse began to play music loudly, from 7.30am until late into the night, and took to abusing people in the street as well as smashing windows.

Music, banging and general disturbance became so bad Mr McColl moved to sleep in the cellar.

Mrs Tyrer said the family's ordeal seemed to be over at Christmas when Fieldhouse was jailed. However, when Fieldhouse was released the neighbour's troubles began anew.

Stephen Culleton, mitigating, said it was unclear whether Fieldhouse had a personality disorder.