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Several months later, three of the four tenants at the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust complex have either moved away or plan to move. The daughter of one tenant said she moved her mother out in late May because she was worried about her safety and mental health. “She was getting to the point of being scared to go out of her home, too scared to go to the letterbox,” she said. “It s all pretty horrific what we ve been through.” The woman said her mother had lived at the complex for about 12 years. “I used to love going down there and visiting her … and then all of a sudden these horrible strange things start happening and everybody starts looking stressed and anxious and nervous and having to escort each other to the bloody letterbox.”
Since
Stuff’s first article on the Templeton dispute on January 30, Shepherd claims her car has been scratched, her garden poisoned and her fence cut. Other tenants claim their cars have also been damaged. The flat’s landlord, the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust, said it could not discuss individuals or active cases, especially “where there are issues that may affect individual privacy or our work to find a resolution”. “As a responsible landlord, we are staying in touch with the residents as we continue to work with our tenants, residents and other agencies, to identify a resolution.”
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Kerry Black and Shirley say they re terrified of a neighbour who moved into their community housing complex late last year.
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Sharyn Shepherd, formerly known as Hope Taylor, is alleged to have made life difficult for her neighbours in a block of flats in Templeton.
An abusive neighbour said to have poisoned the atmosphere in a friendly Templeton street was at the centre of another toxic neighbourhood dispute in 2007. Sharyn Shepherd, also known as Hope Maree Taylor, has been allegedly harassing her neighbours in a row of pensioner flats in Templeton, on the outskirts of Christchurch. Neighbours claim they have been abused by Shepherd, are frightened to sit outside and fear for their pets after two cats were found dead.
After a bit of online sleuthing, the neighbours discovered Shepherd was a convicted shoplifter and retail fraudster.
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Sharyn Shepherd, also known as Hope Maree Taylor, is allegedly harassing her neighbours in a quiet Templeton street. When
Stuff visited recently, Shepherd agreed to discuss the allegations informally. Her home was neatly kept and her garden well cared for. She said she was the one being intimidated and harassed and her past had nothing to do with her tenancy. “Am I to be trodden down for the rest of my life because someone said I was a fraudster? “All of the allegations against me about my tenancy are false. It’s a witch hunt,” she said.