One of the victims of a malicious litigant has spoken about his fear that she will target others on her release from prison.

Janet D’Sa mounted a sustained campaign of harassment against a succession of her landlords.

Last week she found guilty of criminal damage for flooding one of the flats she was evicted from.

The 49-year-old from Croydon was also found guilty of theft after stealing hundreds of letters from her neighbours and a Royal Mail postbag.

A judge at the Inner London Crown Court sentenced her on Friday to a total of 12 months in prison for the two offences.

D’Sa was renting an apartment from Keith and Sonia Galvau in Croydon from July 2004 to August 2005.

After a seven-month court battle they finally managed to evict her.

Mr Galvau said that she contested every eviction going to a variety of different courts and even took the Galvaus to the High Court.

Before she left she removed all the bleed valves from the radiators allowing a steady stream of water to drip into the rooms, completely ruining the floating floors that they had installed.

Mr Galvau said: “After four days the chipboard resembled a mouldy sandwich.

“We had to rip it all up, it cost in the region of £8,000 to repair.”

She then moved into another property in Croydon owned by Derek and Annette Jenkins in September 2005.

In letters she falsely accused Mr Jenkins of benefit fraud, hitting his wife and claimed the couple were engaged in incest and three-in-a-bed sex sessions.

D'Sa claimed she had reported him as a suspect in Sally Anne Bowman's murder.

Mr Jenkins finally got a court order to evict her.

When he entered her flat to gather up her possessions, he found hundreds of opened and unopened letters belonging to other people stored inside the pages of magazines and newspapers.

The letters, dated from January 1, 2004 to November 5, 2007, included birthday cards, DVLA notices and pension statements.

The court heard how she was caught rifling through the post bag of Royal Mail postman Gary Spackman on July 26, 2006.

When he asked her what she was doing, she accused him of assaulting her.

D'Sa took all of her victims to the High Court but the cases were thrown out when it was discovered her allegations were unsubstantiated.

She was spared prison and given a community order in 2004 after being found guilty of harassing her elderly landlady Sheila Read, then aged 78.

Mr Galvau said: “She has been allowed to claim thousands of pounds in legal aid and it has cost us a fortune to defend ourselves.

“We are delighted that this is all behind us but I am fearful that once she is released from prison she will be able to target other unsuspecting people and it is going to happen again and again.”

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