A DEPUTY headteacher's games of strip poker with a female neighbour led to a campaign of harassment and hatred against his family, a court heard.
The woman who subjected them to months of abuse has now been electronically tagged to stop her bothering them again.
Magistrates heard Dan Ritson and his wife Michela were very friendly with next-door-neighbour Lisa Jayne Walker.
But the relationship descended into hatred when Walker's partner Joey Salmon discovered she was being invited around for games of strip poker and spin the bottle, the court heard.
Nick Archer, defending Walker against accusations of harassment at Southport magistrates court, said his client was discovered in a "clinch" with Mr Ritson.
But Mrs Ritson denied the accusation and Walker's allegation she was invited round for strip poker and spin the bottle.
Community care practitioner Mrs Ritson and her husband told the court how their neighbour plagued them with obscene language and abusive gestures and encouraged an eight-year-old girl to throw a stone at their car.
Mr Ritson, deputy head of residential services at a school for autistic children, said: "It's been a living hell.
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