An 81-year-old woman once described by a judge as "the original neighbour from hell" is appealing against a six-month jail sentence.
Dorothy Evans, of Abergavenny, south Wales, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on April 17 for one conviction of harassment and six breaches of her anti-social behaviour order.
Her challenge to the sentence will be heard at the Court of Appeal in London by Mr Justice Gross and Mr Justice Underhill.
Judge Roderick Denyer QC, when sentencing Evans, said: "It seems to me, despite your age and despite your infirmities, you have deliberately - for a period going on for 10 years - made life a misery for neighbours. In my view, the consequences of your behaviour must be brought home to you."
Evans' barrister David Webster told the Crown Court that she was "fearful in a way I cannot fully describe" of going to prison. He said that, because of this, the best punishment would be a suspended prison sentence to act as a deterrent and protect her neighbours.
Mr Webster said: "This is not a woman who is wholly bad but on the evidence has become obsessional about a dispute she has had with neighbours."
He said the source of Evans' dispute was flooding at her home in Park Crescent which was kept under control by constant pumping operations.
This prevented her from selling her home, he said, and she blamed this on whoever was living next door. The neighbours in this case were Angela and Roberto Casa.
At her trial in February, a jury heard how she breached the Asbo in a number of ways, including shouting abuse, calling Mrs Casa a prostitute and telling her husband to go back to Italy.
Evans also told the couple's 13-year-old daughter that she was a witch and that she would cast a spell on the family, and displayed photographs of their home in the window of her garage along with a piece of paper with the word "scum" written on it.
