'Isolated' pensioner dubbed the Pigeon Woman is banned by council from feeding birds in her OWN garden and told to pay £2,400 after neighbours complain

'Isolated' pensioner dubbed the Pigeon Woman is banned by council from feeding birds in her OWN garden and told to pay £2,400 after neighbours complain
Katherine Spiller was told to stop feeding the birds by the council in 2015
66-year-old flouted community protection notice and still put bird seed out
Taken to court after complaints from neighbours who are 'at their wits' end'
She was handed a £640 fine and must also pay £1,729 in prosecution costs
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An 'isolated' pensioner dubbed the Pigeon Woman has been banned from feeding the birds in her garden and told she must pay more than £2,400 after her neighbours complained.
Katherine Spiller, from east Oxford, was issued with a community protection notice in February last year after residents complained about swarms of birds.
The 66-year-old, who writes poems about pigeons, ignored the order - and was taken to court after she continued to put out bird seed.
She has now been handed a £640 fine for breaching the order eight times. She must also pay a £64 victim surcharge and £1,729 in prosecution costs.
The retired library assistant, speaking after the court case, said she fed the pigeons because she enjoyed their company and was otherwise isolated.
She said: 'I enjoy the company of pigeons and I enjoy feeding them.
'They're so appreciative of the food and I'm appreciative of their company. They give so much back and I get a lot out of the time I spend with them.
'I used to feed the pigeons in town, but back in 2008 a new law was introduced equating it with littering - so I stopped feeding them in town because there would be fines, and started doing it from home. I never dreamed I'd get in trouble for it.'



Oxford Magistrates' Court heard Ms Spiller was handed the community protection notice by Oxford City Council after a number of complaints.
But the 'habitual bird feeder' failed to abide by the notice and continued to feed the pigeons at her terraced property.

Ms Spiller, who said she has always fed the birds and who writes poems about them (right), ignored the order - and was taken to court after she continued to put out bird seed. She is pictured (left) with a pigeon on her shoulder when she was younger
The court was shown pictures of dozens of pigeons perched on her roof and window ledges. Some were also spotted sitting on neighbouring buildings.
Jeremy Franklin, representing Oxford City Council, said Ms Spiller flouted the notice eight times between August and October 2015.
He said: 'The defendant is a habitual feeder of birds, mostly pigeons, which congregate around her house in large numbers, causing a certain amount of distress and antagonism to the neighbours.
'The warning notice required the defendant to cease dropping bird seed or foodstuffs that would encourage birds, vermin or other animals in her garden or anywhere and to keep her garden free from weeds and plants providing shelter to vermin and other animals.

She has now been handed a £640 fine for breaching the order eight times. She must also pay a £64 victim surcharge and £1,729 in prosecution costs. She is pictured looking out of her upstairs window
'Despite the imposition of the notice, the defendant was found to have breached it by continuing to feed the pigeons. Those charged with dealing with this problem are at their wits' end.'
Ms Spiller, who did not attend the hearing, sent a letter to the court admitting she failed to comply with the notice.
Mr Franklin said the city council might have to take further action to stop Ms Spiller feeding pigeons if she couldn't change her ways.

Julie Bishop DID complain about security treatment after pat down, man sacked

Julie Bishop did not complain 'officially' about security treatment after pat down -but it did lead to the airport worker who targeted her getting the sack
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A man has been sacked after he picked Julie Bishop out for a body scan
The Foreign Minister underwent the extra security scan and was 'pat down'
She maintains she did not make an official complaint
Three other Melbourne Airport security personnel have been suspended


A man has been sacked after it was found he deliberately targeted Foreign Minister Julie Bishop for a 'random' body scan, and 'pat down' at an airport last year.
The incident occurred on October 8 at Melbourne Airport as Bishop prepared to fly to Los Angeles, three other airport security members have been suspended over the incident the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Bishop maintains she didn't make an 'official' complaint about the issue.

Bishop says she didn't make a complaint - however correspondence between federal bureaucrats suggest something was said about the incident
'I didn't complain, but airport authorities found that I had been inappropriately targeted and treated inappropriately,' Ms Bishop told ABC program Insiders.
'There was an investigation into it and it was found that there were breaches of security protocols and that I was given, let me put it this way, an inappropriate amount of attention,' she said.


Correspondence between federal bureaucrats states Bishop did complain, but it does not specifically state the complaint was made in an official capacity.
'Just a heads up that the Foreign Minister had a bad experience through screening point in Melbourne recently and complained to DPMO,' Sachi Wimmer Office of Transport Security's executive director wrote in an email to the department.
The email mentioned a 'security guard insisted in patting her down'.
Ms Bishop received an apology from an airport executive whore viewed CCTV footage of the incident describing it as 'not pleasant'.

An investigation found the man who was fired had picked Bishop from a crowd and told a colleague to include her in the 'random' check
A button on the minister's jacket set the scanner off - she removed the jacket so it could be scanned - but security insisted on a 'pat-down'.
When the shift changed the man who was sacked, and who had told his colleague to pick the minister for the scan, continued to work on the station near Bishop.
'In the course of being scanned a staffing change occurred and the lane swapped. This led to the Foreign Minister's belongings (including her shoes) to be not where she was and she was left without her belongings (and her shoes) for over a minute after the scanning was complete,' Department of Infrastructure director Cathy Murphy told colleagues in an email going on to describe the expression on Bishop's face at the time as 'unhappy'.
A spokeswoman from Bishop's office has admitted she has not been given an 'inappropriate level of attention' before or since the incident.
'The Foreign Minister has passed through security at Australian international airports more than 50 times in years, and through domestic airports many hundreds of times in recent years. This is the only incident.'

When the shift changed the sacked employee allegedly lingered near Bishop (pictured here with former Treasurer Joe Hockey) instead of moving to his next station