RESIDENTS have told of their torment at having to live beside a mother and daughter who made their lives "hell".
Denise Sawyer and her 14-year-old daughter have been banned from their home in Troutsdale Grove, east Hull, after causing weeks of misery.
Police were granted a closure order for the flat after a catalogue of nuisance, which means nobody is allowed to enter the property for three months.
Officers said Miss Sawyer would have all-night parties, including loud music and other noises, and would threaten and abuse neighbours when they contacted police.
Dozens of people would visit Miss Sawyer's property every day.
One disabled man, who was punched in the face by a visitor to the house, said: "We have been dragged to hell and back. It has been a living nightmare. I have never known anybody like her. She has caused us so many problems."
Police said the trouble began days after Miss Sawyer and her daughter moved into the flat in May.
The man, who did not wish to be named, said when Miss Sawyer was served with hundreds of pages of witness statements by police, she threw them from her flat window.
"She even shoved a load of them through my letterbox," he said.
"When the police first came, she was convinced I had reported her even though I hadn't.
"She was always telling me to watch my back.
"I think she has confronted almost everybody on the street.
"I was attacked by one of the people who came round, because they were banging on my door.
"I went to my door and told them to get away and he swung right round my face. It cut my lip open."
Hull City Council's neighbourhood nuisance team is now going to court to apply for Miss Sawyer's tenancy to be revoked before the closure order expires in September.
One female resident said: "I feel like we can breathe again now she has gone. We were as nice as pie to her when she first moved in, but everything just changed.
"There was constant banging and she would shout, 'is that loud enough for you?'. She would have parties that started at 5.30pm and were still going at the same time the next day.
"It has just been non-stop. It has driven me mad. There were always people coming to the house and they would sometimes climb through the windows or jump out of them and run through the gardens."
The neighbours praised the actions of police and council officers after the closure order was granted just weeks after Miss Sawyer moved in.
