FEUDING neighbours have been warned they face jail unless they behave.

Thomas Pearce and his wife Bernadette have been given anti-social behaviour injunctions banning them from using violence, threatening, abusing, harassing or pestering their victims.

Next door neighbour Grace Coleby, her mum, Janice, and bothers and sisters, have suffered months of threats, abuse and noise from the Pearces.

Grace used a video camera to film Mr and Mrs Pearce behaving badly - and the tape was used to obtain the court injunction.

The film shows Thomas Pearce standing on a ladder shouting: "It's my fence, right! My fence," before dismantling two panels. He goes on to yell "You can stick that up your ******* ****."

Meanwhile, his wife storms towards the victims, slams their window shut, throws rubbish in their garden, swears, mocks and threatens them.

She shouts "I'll ******* fist you one" before taunting them with a little dance.

Another clip shows Bernadette hurling dog dirt at their window.

On one occasion, Grace was attacked by Bernadette, a court hearing was told.

The yob punched the girl in the face, giving her a black eye, and hit her about her head and arms.

Now the neighbours-from-hell, who live in at Ketton Close, Longbenton, North Tyneside,have been warned they face prison if they fail to behave.

North Tyneside Council's safer estates team, led by Colin Boxshall, has obtained anti-social behaviour injunctions against the pair, banning them from using violence, threatening, abusing, harassing or pestering their victims.

The Coleby family gathered evidence and worked with the council and police to secure the orders at the county court. Now if Thomas, 59, or Bernadette, 44, breach the injunctions, they can be arrested and brought before a judge. This could lead to a maximum two-year period of imprisonment.

The Colebys welcomed the court orders and hope for some respite after living in misery.

Janice, 47, said: "It has been an absolute nightmare. It all started when they were playing loud music and I banged on the wall in the hope they would turn it down. Mr Pearce came to our door and said he would ensure the music was not so loud. And they did turn it down that day.

"But a few days later it started again. Then almost every night we would hear loud thumping music throughout the evenings in all our rooms. We could not sit in our own house because of the noise.

"In addition, their two Alsatian dogs were always barking very loudly. Our quality of life was severely affected.

"We rang 101 to report incidents and also told the council. We were asked to keep diary sheets of what was happening. Then in June this year environmental health officers wrote to the Pearces.

"That's what led to the fence incident. Mr Pearce first came round after getting the letters and for several minutes banged on our front door. I was too frightened to go to the door. After that he went round the back and started taking down the fence.

"I called the police while my daughter started filming it. We were terrified. "

Bernadette Pearce said: "We feel this is totally unfair. We have been driven to this.

"What you see in the video is the result of months and months of insults and unfair complaints made about us. We just couldn't take any more. We didn't want them to be able to hide behind the fence calling us names and so out of pure frustration we pulled it down."

Thomas, a retired bricklayer, said: "We have never had any trouble with our neighbours before. They are trying to blacken our name and make us out to be Asbo people but we're not. This has just spiralled out of control."

Bernadette added: "This injunction will make no difference to our lives as we weren't doing anything wrong in the first place."