A WOMAN whose unruly behaviour has persistently upset her neighbours says that she will now ‘keep away from them’, the Magistrate’s Court was told yesterday.

After a month spent in custody, Colleen Nadia Finnigan was now ‘thinking clearly’ and would not continue disturbing those living near her at Grande Pièce, St Peter, Advocate Sarah Fitz told the court. She was ‘a charming person when sober’, said counsel, and arrangements were now in place for her to receive the help she needed. And although a dispute with her neighbours continued, she would now keep away from them, she added. Finnigan (54), who had admitted causing a public nuisance by shouting and swearing last month and being in breach of probation, was told by Magistrate Ian Le Marquand that she might have been jailed for a number of months. He said that the court recognised her problems, but that she could not go on upsetting her neighbours. She was put on probation for a new nine-month period, with a six-month treatment condition included.