Lesbian couple forced to move after neighbour hounded them with sickening abuse

A couple say they were forced to move home after they were hounded by a neighbour who hurled homophobic abuse at them.

Nurse Faye Mallon, 26, and her partner Lydia Henshall, 27, were subjected to a campaign of harassment by former gym owner Kim Armstrong, a court heard.

Armstrong, a 63-year-old father-of-two, called the women 'naughty disrespectful girls', repeatedly drove his vehicle into the couple's car and also filled their wheelie bin with medical waste.

He also looked through their window and saw them 'being affectionate' to each other, the court heard.

When confronted by the two women he said: ''‘Am I bothered? You're the f****** weirdos''. He also dismissed the couple as 'fat lesbians.'

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Ms Mallon and Ms Henshall later moved out of their home in Stockport to get away from the abuse.

Ms Mallon told police: ''I think he is behaving like this due to me being in a relationship. I recall him looking in through our lounge window and he saw us being affectionate towards each other. I believe that is when he started behaving in this way.

''The ongoing situation has had an impact on my mental health. It has caused me anxiety and most recently I have to take three days off work sick.''

Ms Henshall said: "I feel like he was targeting myself and Faye and we just want it to stop. His behaviour was causing a lot of stress to us both and I was constantly worrying about what might happen next.

''I felt like I could never fully relax when I was at home and I felt like Kim was trying to make our lives as uncomfortable as possible in an attempt to make us move. We loved our home and we have spent a lot of money on it and