A WOMAN threatened her neighbour that she would get police to rape her, a court heard yesterday.

Marie Spenceley and Michelle Beech fell out over complaints about Ms Spenceley playing loud music until after 3am.

Miss Beech, 33, told a jury that Ms Spenceley, 35, said she would get friends of hers in Chester and Liverpool CID to rape her.

She said: "She threatened on several occasions to have me raped.

"I absolutely believed she would do what she said. I felt terrified."

Ms Spenceley, from Merseyside, moved in next door to Miss Beech in Litton Street, Middlesbrough, Teesside, three years ago.

They were friends until Miss Beech began complaining about noise from the terraced house.

She said: "It began with loud music being played into the early hours, sometimes 3am, sometimes later.

"I went to the house but got no response. She would come to the window and shout abuse.

"She said that I had it coming to me, she was going to have me raped and she was going to get her mates in Chester and Liverpool CID to do it to me."

Miss Beech said that she reported Ms Spenceley's threats to Cleveland police, and that Ms Spenceley also said she was going to have her shot.

Ms Spenceley was arrested after also threatening to have her home burgled, Ray Priest, prosecuting, told Teesside Crown Court.

Ms Spenceley, of Crosswood Crescent, Hyton, Liverpool, denies putting Miss Beech in fear of violence by harassment between April 5 and 15 2001.

The case continues.