A 'neighbour from hell' who threatened to termination a justice aft helium branded him a 'vile' and 'evil man' arsenic helium jailed him implicit his run of panic was enactment backmost down bars today.
Peter Johnson, present 62, was besides banned for beingness from returning to his location municipality of Alsager, Cheshire by Judge Steven Everett successful 2019 aft helium dished retired years of maltreatment to long-suffering neighbours.
His hatred run included sending poison pen letters accusing those surviving adjacent of coercion offences, being Nazi sympathisers and adjacent cannibals.
But aft being freed pursuing a condemnation of 2 years and 4 months, Johnson began sending 'repugnant' letters to the respected judge, including a mocked up obituary.
Johnson lied that they were written by a convicted fraudster with whom helium had shared a cell, nevertheless a assemblage recovered him blameworthy of 4 offences of making threats to termination and six counts of malicious communication.
Peter Johnson, present 62, was banned for beingness from returning to his location municipality of Alsager, Cheshire by Judge Steven Everett successful 2019
Today different justice slammed his 'obnoxious' behaviour arsenic she sent him backmost to situation for 4 years and 3 months.
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told him: 'You suggested helium was corrupt, a Nazi and an ignorant bigot.
'You accused him of intersexual deviancy.'
She highlighted however Johnson – contempt having nary transportation to Islam – had 'purported to contented a fatwa' oregon ruling connected Islamic instrumentality against the judge.
'You said you would beryllium successful tribunal astatine the tribunal doorway watching for him,' she added.
'You sent him an insulting fictional obituary you created for him.
'These letters were sent to his places of enactment and immoderate were opened by him, causing daze and distress.'
Addressing Judge Everett's comments astir Johnson's actions arsenic helium jailed him astatine Chester Crown Court successful 2019, she said: 'As portion of his sentencing remarks inevitably helium made a captious appraisal of you.
'You said you bore him nary animosity, that was a lie.'
In a unfortunate interaction connection Judge Everett said helium had 'never ever experienced behaviour' similar it.
Some of the letters were sent straight to the courts wherever helium was sitting, resulting successful information measures having to beryllium strengthened.
Johnson was jailed him astatine Chester Crown Court (pictured) successful 2019
In the 2019 case, Johnson wrote to a section GP to accidental that a parishioner had sexually abused his son, accused others of bestiality and 1 nonmigratory of having AIDs.
One unfortunate was adjacent investigated by counter-terror constabulary and banned from moving with susceptible radical arsenic a result, adjacent though the claims were wholly unfounded.
During his clip successful custody Johnson became friends with convicted fraudster Kevin Cairns, successful his 40s and from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He spent further clip with him upon his merchandise but the conman duped him into transferring £14,000 to supposedly assistance him determination home, which helium failed to do, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
By the extremity of 2020 Johnson fell into 'old habits' and started sending 'repugnant, abusive and threatening letters' to Judge Everett who, coincidentally, had besides jailed Cairns successful 2019.
He besides targeted 3 abstracted situation governors successful a akin manner utilizing racist, homophobic and neo-Nazi slurs.
In his evidence, Johnson tried to instrumentality revenge connected Cairns by claiming helium was liable for the hatred mail.
He alleged that the conman had learnt his methods and copied them successful a bid to incriminate him.
But constabulary established the letters had been posted from Cheshire, wherever Johnson lived successful the colony of Eaton, and hundreds of miles distant from the fraudster's address.
They besides recovered traces of Johnson's DNA connected immoderate of them.
Today the justice accepted that Johnson's autism and terrible slump had contributed to his behaviour.
But she dismissed his assertion helium could not power himself.
Judge Everett – who has presided implicit high-profile trials, including ex-Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy, who was cleared of 7 counts of rape, is known for his strongly-worded sentencing remarks.
Earlier this period helium accused erstwhile British cycling champion Richard Hughes, 53, of telling a 'sob story' and 'blaming everyone other but himself' aft helium tried to nexus his intersexual battle against a massage diligent to the bitter breakdown of his marriage.
Last twelvemonth helium told instrumentality steadfast idiosyncratic Jordan Heeley, 31, and woman Alexandra Ditcham, 28, who was grooming to go a societal worker, that having bully jobs did not assistance them 'special' presumption arsenic helium jailed them for selling cocaine to friends.
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