RESIDENTS in a street say a neighbour from hell is still making their lives a misery and causing their house prices to fall.

Neighbours have issued countless complaints about Dominic McGrath of Melville Drive, Wickford, who is the subject of a ten-year antisocial behaviour order.

Mr McGrath is in the headlines again after he became the focal point of a legal row over the sale of a next door neighbour’s house.

Kevin Hurst, who bought his semi-detached house in July 2008, has launched a £100,000 legal bid for compensation against the previous owners because he claims he was tricked into buying the house next door to Mr McGrath’s for £179,000.

He claims it is now worth just £94,500 and that he was not told of the problems with his neighbour.

Another neighbour still living in the street and who asked not to be named said: “Nothing has changed round here in all the years he has been here, he is still up to his old tricks.

“He calls the police and it seems like they are on his side. Nothing has ever been done about him. We have all just had enough.

“This is a really nice road and it’s a shame that our homes are losing value because of one person.”

Mr McGrath, a former piano teacher, was jailed for six months at Basildon Crown Court in June 2010 for using threatening or intimidating behaviour.

The same year he was given a community order for chasing three teenagers down his road with a knife after he wrongly assumed they had been throwing things at his house.

He has also been convicted of harassing neighbours and been handed the ten-year Asbo.

Mr McGrath was out and about in Melville Drive yesterday wearing a black hat and black jacket. He was walking up and down the road and using n his phone.

He said he couldn’t comment on the court case because of his Asbo and he didn’t have any problems with the Hurst family.