article_snippet: Richardson flew into a rage after being confronted when Richardson kicked his neighbour's bins in anger outside Richardson home in Whinney Banks, Middlesbrough.
article_snippet: Richardson told police there had been a long-running feud between Richardson and Richardson neighbours over 'quite petty' issues and said Richardson had initially kicked his neighbour's bins because Richardson was annoyed.
article_snippet: Prosecutor Emma Atkinson told Teesside Crown Court that there had been previous disputes between Richardson and Richardson neighbours leading up to the attack on November 11 last year.
article_snippet: Prosecutor Emma Atkinson said: 'There's been a great deal of animosity between the two parties, more recently in relation to wheelie bins.'
article_snippet: Prosecutor Emma Atkinson told Teesside Crown Court how Richardson was drunk when Richardson came out of Richardson home in the early hours and kicked Richardson neighbours' bins.
article_snippet: Richardson was confronted by the woman who lived next door to Richardson and responded by kicking Prosecutor Emma Atkinson in the shin, Teesside Crown Court heard.
article_snippet: Richardson punched Richardson to the floor before Richardson went inside, Teesside Crown Court heard.
article_snippet: Richardson told officers there had been 'quite petty' issues between the neighbours but said Richardson could not remember exactly what happened.
article_snippet: Robert Mochrie said there was a high degree of 'slow-burn provocation' where Richardson was 'pushed and pushed and pushed'.
article_snippet: Richardson claimed Richardson's life was made 'a living misery for many, many months' with anti-social behaviour, verbal threats and one allegation of physical assault.
article_snippet: Richardson told Teesside Crown Court Teesside Crown Court built up upset and frustration in a man of good standing who had worked to make something of Richardson.
article_snippet: Richardson said Richardson petulantly kicked the bins and that matters had simply spiralled out of control.
article_snippet: The judge, Recorder Jamie Hill QC, heard how it was the first offences committed by Richardson in 13 years before jailing Robert Mochrie.
article_snippet: Robert Mochrie said: 'This is a classic and appalling example of what can happen when neighbour disputes get out of hand.
article_snippet: Robert Mochrie said there was no provocation for the assault itself as Richardson started the chain of events that night with Robert Mochrie 'childish action'. '
highlights_snippet: He lashed out after being confronted for kicking wheelie bin outside home .
  