LISA Tracey spurned the attentions of a male neighbour when she moved into a flat in Westwood Court, Blackburn.

But the town's magistrates heard that the relationship went from one extreme to another and ended in animosity with Tracey smashing her neighbour's window.

Tracey, 26, pleaded guilty to damaging a window worth £85 belonging to North British Housing. She was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £85 compensation.

Andrew Church-Taylor, defending, said there was a history to the offence which went back to when Tracey moved in four months ago. "When she first moved in the complainant was friendly towards her, perhaps a little too friendly," said Mr Church-Taylor.

"He became a little intrusive and she made it clear to him that his attentions were unwanted. Rather than maintaining the friendship at that level, he went to the other extreme and there was animosity.

"This reared its head in the shape of incidents involving her child and her car.

"On one occasion he was seen taking a video of her and, on another, he put a ladder up to her bedroom window when she was asleep. That was very disturbing for her."