She sentenced Elston to six weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months alongside a supervision requirement. The court was instructed it had to increase the severity of the sentence due to the aggravating feature of the transphobic abuse.Ĭhair of the bench Catherine Newman said Elston would have received a high-level community order but the transgender hate element meant it crossed the custody threshold.
She said he accepted he had an alcohol problem and struggles with his emotions. She said the feud had started out as a simple neighbour dispute, but said her client had been drunk at the time of the incident and had been seeking solace in alcohol to deal with personal issues in his private life.
The court heard he had also breached bail conditions by going into Norman Road, which he had been banned from doing.ĭefending, Nama Zarroug said her client had been “thoroughly ashamed” when the recording of his actions was played to him at interview.
It was deliberate and targeted, he picked on her vulnerable points and sought to exploit it to the maximum.” Ms Collins said: “It’s bullying at its worst and lowest form. He was held overnight and the recording of his abuse was played back to him the next morning when he admitted his guilt. Once police arrived and arrested Elston, he continued the abuse on the journey to the custody suite – saying he “wanted an apology off that tranny” and said he would “knock her out”. Ms Collins said Elston had called her, among other things, a “****ing tranny” and told her she was “not really a woman” and a “freak”. Prosecutor Nicola Collins told how Miss Gaynor - who began living as a woman in 2007 and completed gender re-assignment surgery last year - recorded the 15 minute tirade of abuse on her phone and called police after fearing he might break in. The court heard how he began banging on his neighbour's door at around 10.15pm on June 26 after she arrived home from work. The court heard that Elston had screamed hate-filled abuse and threatened to defecate and urinate through Miss Gaynor’s letterbox following a row over cleaning up after his dog.Īt the time of the incident 25-year-old Elston had been living at his girlfriend’s house next door to Miss Gaynor on Norman Road, Seacombe. A Merseyside dad who launched a tirade of hate through his transsexual neighbour’s letterbox, calling her a “freak” and threatening to “punch her lights out”, avoided jail.Īdam Elston, of Lever Avenue, Seacombe, appeared before Wirral magistrates today after admitting abusing truck driver Vikki-Marie Gaynor.
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