A 68-year-old has been slapped with a restraining order for harassing her neighbours by deliberately leaving her lanmower running while they hosted a dinner party.The ban, handed down at Salisbury Magistrates' Court, is hoped to bring an end to a 15-year feud in the award-winning Wiltshire village of Urchfont.Peter and Corrine Rotherham, who aged 60 and 61, were hosting a tapas party for six guests in their garden when Zoi Hayes, who lives in a £1 million home next door to their £675,000 bungalow, intentionally “annoyed” them with the noisy machinery.This is the second restraining order issued against Hayes. A previous order in 2021, prohibiting her from “pestering” the Rotherhams, was granted after she damaged a sweet pea flower belonging to Mrs Rotherham, a semi-retired auditor, and her tree surgeon husband. Hayes pleaded guilty to breaching that initial order with the lawnmower incident.While her neighbours were hosting a dinner party in July 2025 for the first time in “a number of years”, Hayes turned on her lawnmower and “just left it” so the noise would “frustrate and annoy” Mr and Mrs Rotherham and their guests.Corinne Rotherham speaking to another person outside the court (Ollie Thompson/Solent News)Some of the frustrated attendees had to go next door to ask Hayes to turn it off and secret footage recorded by them was used in the police investigation.Hayes admitted harassment that constitutes a breach of a restraining order.She was given a two-year restraining order and ordered to pay more than £500, comprised of a £348 fine, victim surcharge of £139, and £85 in court costs.The spat took place in Urchfont, which won the The Campaign to Protect Rural England's winner award for Best Kept Village in both 2024 and 2025.Properties in the village can fetch up to £1,725,000.Hayes moved into her home in Urchfont in 2003 with her husband Arthur, 74, while Mr and Mrs Rotherham moved into their bungalow in 2011.Hayes has now moved to Hartgrove, Dorset, and told the court she did not want to give her address to the court as she didn't want the Rotherhams, who were sitting in the public gallery, knowing it.Peter Rotherham outside the court (Ollie Thompson/Solent News)The restraining order includes conditions not to contact the couple or go to their address.Robert Salamé, prosecuting, said: "The defendant has a conviction for criminal damage to which she was subject to a restraining order to run for a period of five years between February 23, 2021 and February 22, 2026."Mrs Rotherham and the defendant have been neighbours for 15 years."There is a lengthy history of disputes between them which culminated with that prosecution and the imposing of the restraining order."There was a breach of the restraining order between February 24, 2021 and March 25, 2021, for which the defendant received a suspended imprisonment of six weeks, suspended for 12 months and the restraining order remained in place."The matter to which the defendant is to be sentenced occurred on July 19, 2025 when Corrine Rotherham held a dinner party with six friends."It was a sunny evening and at around 7:30pm the defendant parked her lawnmower directly next to the fence and she left the engine running loudly for approximately an hour."It caused Corrine a degree of distress and her friends went next door to speak to Zoi."She admitted doing it to annoy Corrine and the matter was subsequently reported to the police as this amounted to a breach of the restraining order conditions."Urchfont won the The Campaign to Protect Rural England's winner award for Best Kept Village in both 2024 and 2025 (Solent News)In a statement provided to the court, Mrs Rotherham said: "She does not realise how much she impacted on me and my husband."My concern is that she will come back to the area as she has never accepted that she has done anything wrong."I have heard that she is obsessed with getting revenge."After talking to our new neighbours I have heard that she has, on several occasions, come back to pick up items such as garden equipment."Mr Salamé said that when Hayes was in the process of moving out of her house, she would make “sneering” comments at Mrs Rotherham, who would ignore them as she knew it would be over soon.He said that in February 2026 she approached Mr Rotherham when he was out shopping which left him feeling “shocked” and “unsettled”.Hayes, defending herself, said: "I would like to begin by expressing my sincere remorse for my actions and I deeply regret that incident."I understand that what I did was wrong and I am sorry."All of this has come about as a result of a 16-year-long lasting neighbour dispute and a personality clash between Corrine Rotherham and myself."Because of this I have ended up with a string of convictions that I agree look bad on paper but do not tell the whole story."This is the main reason I have decided to represent myself today."The Rotherhams’ home, left, and Zoi Hayes's former home in Urchfont (Solent News)She said that the incident took place during a “difficult period” in her life due to mental health issues.Chair of the Magistrates Timothy Watts concluded: "We have listened carefully to your evidence and the prosecution."We noted your remorse but we also noted your relevant convictions."We have decided to deal with this with a fine. A restraining order will be put in place for two years."After the sentence, Hayes said: "You have to remember that there are two sides to every story."She finds a way to twist everything. I will only be happy when she takes her last breath."Previously, Mrs Rotherham said: "She made our lives absolute hell for 14 or 15 years."It was like living with a Peeping Tom who was absolutely obsessed with you. She cut a hole in the hedge so she could look through so we had to grow it out."We avoided her like the plague. It was just hell. She was a compulsive liar and a neighbour from hell."