Moment 'Britain's worst neighbour' threatened to kill London couple on Ring doorbell clip

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Drina Gray, 52, vacuumed and played loud music at night, stole parcels from outside her neighbours’ door and made death threats on a Ring doorbell camera

A couple from southwest London have revealed how an 18-month campaign of abuse from “Britain’s worst neighbour” made them feel like prisoners in their own home.

Ben Stanley, 32, and partner Emma Williams, 31, have spoken about their ordeal in new Channel 5 documentary series “At War With Next Door”, which begins on Wednesday evening.

They say that Drina Gray, 52, harassed Mr Stanley at all hours after moving into the flat below him in a block in Wandsworth.

Gray vacuumed and played loud music in the middle of the night, stole parcels from outside their door, and made death threats on a Ring doorbell camera.

She suggested she would kill Mr Stanley by sending her former partner to his home with a gun or burn down the flat after he reported her to the RSPCA for kicking her dog, The Daily Mail reports.

Mr Stanley said he had recorded 140 separate incidents of harassment over 18 months and Gray was arrested following repeated complaints to Wandsworth Council and the Metropolitan Police, and jailed for three years and four months in June 2025.

Gray pleaded guilty to harassment, two counts of criminal damage and using threatening words and behaviour, with the judge saying she made her neighbours' lives 'hell'.

Mr Stevens had bought the former council flat in 2022, with Gray later moving into the flat downstairs in April 2023.

When he knocked on her door to say hello, she shouted “f*** off” through the door. Soon, she began regularly making noises in the middle of the night.

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