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The latest incident came six months after Helen Smith of Tweedle Hill Road, Blackley had been given a 14-day suspended sentence for threatening to kill one of her neighbours in one of seven breaches of a court undertaking. She had also assaulted the neighbour's mother.

The incident happened at the KP petrol station in Victoria Avenue, Blackley when she threatened her former neighbour, a mother of three, saying: "You're going to get your throat slit."

Smith was arrested, held in police custody overnight and appeared at Manchester County Court the following day. The case was then adjourned so that Judge Tetlow could hear evidence from Smith and the ex-neighbour.

Smith's suspended sentence was doubled to 28 days until June 12 next year. An existing injunction was also extended - with powers of arrest - to the same date and an exclusion zone covering two streets in Blackley was extended to include the KP petrol station.

Councillor Basil Curley, Manchester City Council's housing chief said: "This should serve as a message to everyone in the city. If you make life intolerable for your neighbour, you will be pursued vigorously by the City Council and brought to court and punished."