An eccentric former accountant is facing jail today after she waged a YouTube hate campaign against her exasperated neighbours during a bitter feud about car parking in the street, littering, Brexit and her pet turkeys.
Noelle Obcarskas, 64, posted a series of bizarre films on the video sharing platform which showed her having explosive stand up rows, some over her three birds which she kept in the flamboyant front garden of her townhouse she called: “Cluckingham Palace.”
Neighbours called in police after complaints about the smell and loud gobbling noises made by the turkeys, one of whom is called Tom, and claimed Obcarskas hurled abuse at them in the genteel cul-de sac in the quaint village of Pulford, Cheshire.
The hamlet of just 580 people is close to where the Duke of Westminster has his family seat.
In one video Obcarskas called company director John McKimmie, 40, a “little fat bully with a skivvy wife” as he remonstrated with her for deliberately blocking his driveway with large pieces of foam.
She also posted a message on a Facebook community page about the father of two saying: “‘Words cannot and are inadequate to describe this display of total tw*t. No wonder his kids are tongue tied and speechless in his presence when he repeatedly tells them to say something.”
In another of her videos Obcarskas filmed herself goading Mr Lloyd outside his home which she posted on YouTube.
During the verbal exchange a clearly frustrated Mr Lloyd who was filming Obcarskas on his iPad to get evidence for police was heard telling her: “You are one obnoxious evil woman” and adding: “You’re top of the class when it comes to stupid. If you’re on these videos, it would be X-rated ……because of your looks.”
In the same film, Obcarskas who has also has two “vegan dogs” and a “vegan cat” panned her camera to a third neighbouring property as a woman screamed: “You a 100% hyprocrite!” at her from her bedroom window.
In a different video she filmed herself having a slanging match with the same neighbour over the parking of her Renault people carrier outside their adjoining homes.
University educated Obcarskas – whose partner currently lives in Germany – claimed she was being targeted due to her Lithuanian heritage and in social media posts called her neighbours “lying Brexiteers with possible pre senile dementia.”
She also slurred them on a Facebook group she created called: ‘Pulford Chester England Near Wales Cymru pronounced Kumree’.
At Chester Magistrates’ Court she was found guilty of harassment between March and May last year after a trial which she failed to attend.
A warrant was issued for her arrest and she now faces up to 12 weeks in jail under sentencing guidelines. Last year she was fined £180 for threatening behaviour following a similar incident in 2021.
Obcraskas who has lived in the close for 30 years had initially got on well with her neighbours but relations deteriorated due to her abusive behaviour. She also irritated the street by acquiring three “rescue” turkeys which she kept at her terraced property.
Emily Land, counsel for the prosecution said in court, said: “The parties concerned do not generally get along and there have been issues in the past. It appears to Mr McKimmie that the defendant is fixated with him.
“The defendant admitted in an interview that this was her YouTube channel and Facebook page the comments that she made but suggested her actions were justified because of provocation from her neighbours. She did not consider that she had caused any harassment, alarm or distress.”
In convicting Obcarskas JP Mark Turner said: “We accept that evidence of both Mr John McKimmie and Mr Gareth Lloyd who were both credible in their evidence. We find that Miss Obcarskas did cause harassment, alarm and distress by posting defamatory comments on various platforms.”
After the case Mr McKimmie who works for a US firm engaged in hydrocarbon exploration said: “I am happy with the result and that justice is being served – it is good for the family and good for me. I am just hoping that’s the end of the matter. I hope there is no re-occurence of the harassment. I hope that Noelle gets what she needs out of it, the correct help.”
When questioned later at home Obcarskas said: “It’s all about toadyism and Brexit and a couple of people who are very unpleasant. I wish I had gone to the court with Covid because at least I would have had my chance to have my say. I no longer trust anybody. I had never had any issues with any neighbours until Brexit and that’s when two little people who are very puffed up, wanted a lot of attention.”
