Ex-Spurs boss’s daughter faces arrest for not attending court over neighbour row

Joanna Shreeves was covicted of common assault after terrorising her neighbours.

An ex-Spurs boss’s daughter is facing arrest after she failed to pay compensation to a neighbour she terrorised during the pandemic.

Joanne Shreeves, 52, was described as a ‘person possessed’ after she hurled boulders and cement at her neighbour Trevor Dempsey’s property while spitting, laughing and swearing at him.

Footage captured from cameras belonging to Mr Dempsey, 62, and his former partner Sandra Durdin, 58, shows Shreeves shaking the fence between the properties in Chingford, east London while shouting ‘You’re a dirty c**t, you are. A f*****g dirty c**t. You know what happens to dirty c**ts?’

Shreeves was later convicted of common assault, criminal damage and threatening behaviour following a trial at Stratford Magistrates’ Court last March.

She was sentenced to a 12 month community order and told to complete 10 days of rehabilitation activity.

The court also ordered her to pay Mr Dempsey £4,000 in compensation, and imposed a two year restraining order which prevented her from contacting him.

But since the ruling, Shreeves has paid her neighbour just £720 in £80 increments, leaving £3,280 outstanding.

She previously contacted a court office last September regarding the payments and said she would call back with further information, but then failed to do so.

Shreeves was then ordered to appear at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court but failed to attend, prompting a magistrate to issue a warrant for her arrest.

Joanne is the daughter of former Tottenham Hotspurs boss Peter Shreeves, who managed the club for a brief stint in the 1991-92 season and has served as assistant manager for a range of clubs including Chelsea, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and QPR.

During her trial last year, Mr Dempsey described her neighbour as a ‘person possessed’ when she threw boulders over his fence on 24 October 2020.

‘There was a big crunch – she went berserk,’ he said.

‘She went to her garage, took out her shovel and shovelled out what we put in and threw it over the top of the fence and actually hit me.

‘You could see her throwing boulders over the fence throwing stuff at the house and windows.

‘She was like a person possessed, she was a person possessed.’

Shreeves later tried to destroy her neighbours CCTV cameras using a hose, and claimed during her trial that footage of her spitting and swearing at her neighbours had been doctored.

However, district Judge Nelson had ridiculed her claim that the CCTV film of her shot by her long suffering neighbours had been tampered with.

‘To suggest that the CCTV footage has been doctored in any way beggers belief,’ he said.

‘There is clearly an undisguised animosity between all the parties in this case.

‘I am satisfied the defendant threw a large number of objects over the fence.’

Shreeves was also found guilty of common assault in relation to the couple’s son, Mitchell Durdin, and criminal damage in respect of a shed, fence and garden flowers to the value of £440.

Mr Durdin told the court he was left feeling humiliated after Shreeves spat at him.

‘It was during the Covid pandemic and there was no vaccine, I was terrified,’ he said.

Last November Peter Shreeves’ wife Carol, 80, admitted causing nearly £5,000 worth of damage to the kitchen of her former neighbours by spraying water inside using a hose.

Footage filmed by Mitchell Durdin showed water gushing through their kitchen door, causing damage to the flooring in November 2021.

Carol was issued with a police caution.

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