A 48-YEAR-OLD woman has been jailed for 18 months after making her neighbours' lives a misery while on a suspended jail sentence for stabbing her partner.

Julie Bennett shouted angrily as she was led off to the cells at Bradford Crown Court today for harassing Keith and Suzanne Barraclough by threatening to kill them, banging on their door late at night and posting "rambling and incoherent" letters to them.

Bennett, of Summer Hall Ing, Wyke, Bradford, was on a 21 month suspended sentence order for unlawfully wounding Craig Fynn with a steak knife when she turned on Mr and Mrs Barraclough in March this year.

Prosecutor Richard Walters said she pleaded guilty to harassment at the magistrates court and was sent to the crown court for sentence.

Mr and Mrs Barraclough, who had lived at their address for 27 years, began finding Bennett "changeable" five years ago, Mr Walters said.

They put it down to post natal depression and things settled down until Bennett called the police on March 18.

She shouted abuse at the couple and two days later turned up in their garden threatening: "You lot are dead."

Bennett was given a police warning but banged on their door at 11pm on March 27 and posted two letters through it.

Mr Walters said the letters were "rambling and incoherent".

Bennett was arrested and bailed but held in custody after breaching the conditions.

She had eight previous convictions, including wounding her former partner Mr Fynn for which she received a 21 month prison sentence, suspended for two years, in September 2014.

She was intoxicated when she stabbed him in the shoulder during an argument.

Bennett told the police: "Yeah, I stuck a knife in him. I hope it's a big hole."

Her barrister, Rebecca Young, said she suffered from depression and an emotionally unstable personality disorder.

Miss Young said Bennett's problems left her unable to deal with situations in an appropriate way.

She had previously fallen out with Mr and Mrs Barraclough over parking and a dispute involving a fence.

"She has now had her first taste of custody and that has had a salutary effect on her," Miss Young said.

Judge Jonathan Rose activated 15 months of the suspended sentence and added three months to run consecutively for harassment.

"You have made the lives of your neighbours a misery," he said.

"You have had warning after warning and you are not listening."

A restraining order without limit of time bans Bennett from contacting Mr and Mrs Barraclough and from going into their garden.