A woman branded an obsessed and deluded liar has been sent to prison for making the lives of her former neighbours "a misery".

Roseanna Austen had been banned from contacting people living at Sarre Court in Sarre, but breached it five times.

And even as a judge adjourned sentence for a report on her behaviour the 55-year-old did it again.

Now Judge Simon James has jailed Austen, of Linley Road, Broadstairs for nine months for the breaches of court orders.

As she was led away one of the neighbours, who turned up at Canterbury Crown Court for the hearing, punched the air.

Austen had been found guilty of sending abusive messages and telephone calls – despite her claiming someone had been mimicking her voice.

Now Judge James has told her: “You have clearly become obsessed and totally consumed by your entirely erroneous belief that you have a right to premises at Sarre Court.

“These were premises from which you were lawfully evicted many years ago and for which you no longer have any proper legal rights.”

"You have clearly become obsessed and totally consumed by your entirely erroneous belief you have a right to premises at Sarre Court" - Judge Simon James

The judge added: “Reason and judgements have long been dispensed with and you have repeatedly failed to heed warnings about your behaviour.

“You have repeatedly and persistently lied and appear incapable of controlling your own actions, where this property is concerned.

“So complete are your delusions that you appear unwilling to see sense and incapable of change.”

Judge James told her he had tried to approach the case “with a degree of sympathy and compassion given her eviction” but she had continued to make her neighbours’ lives “a misery”

Austen, he added, had reached “the end of the road” and she was jailed for a total of nine months.