Moment 'Britain's worst neighbour' threatens to kill couple on Ring doorbell after they complained to the RSPCA about her kicking her dog during 18-month campaign of abuse

A couple have revealed how their nightmare neighbour made their lives a misery with an 18-month campaign of abuse that left them prisoners in their own home.Drina Gray, 52, harassed cyber security manager Ben Stanley, 32, at all hours after moving into the flat below him in a block in Wandsworth, south-west London.She would hoover and play loud music in the middle of the night, steal parcels from outside his door and make chilling death threats on a Ring doorbell camera.The abuse worsened when Mr Stanley's girlfriend Emma Williams, 31, moved in – with Gray becoming jealous and making crude comments about him in front of her.After he reported Gray to the RSPCA for kicking her dog, she suggested she would kill him by sending her former partner to his home with a gun or burn down the flat.Following repeated complaints to Wandsworth Council and the Metropolitan Police, four detectives eventually arrived before smashing in Gray's door and arresting her.She was jailed for three years and four months in June 2025 at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court, with the judge saying she made her neighbours' lives 'hell'.Gray pleaded guilty to harassment, two counts of criminal damage and using threatening words and behaviour over a six-month period in 2024 – although Mr Stanley said he had recorded 140 separate incidents of harassment over 18 months.Now, Mr Stanley and his girlfriend have spoken about their ordeal in the new Channel 5 documentary series 'At War With Next Door', which begins at 8pm tomorrow.Ben Stanley, 32, and his girlfriend Emma Williams, 31, were harassed by their neighbour Drina Gray harassed Mr Stanley and Miss Williams after moving into the flat below themHe bought the former council flat in 2022 and was enjoying living there until the local authority moved a new tenant into the flat downstairs in April 2023 – dog sitter Gray.He knocked on her door to introduce himself as her neighbour, but she did not open it and shouted 'f*** off' – before starting to regularly make noise in the middle of the night.Mr Stanley said she would vacuum in the hallway at all hours while drunkenly shouting, screaming and swearing, meaning he was unable to sleep.Gray also soon became jealous of Miss Williams, making crude comments and describing Mr Stanley as 'having sexy eyes' when she was in her dressing gown. Mr Stanley said Gray 'weaponised the cameras' on his property to get in touch with him.He continued: 'For example, the Ring doorbell, if she activates the button, she knows that that's then being recorded, which will then go into my phone. The camera in the hallways, she would then just stand and leave messages to me all times of the night.'Gray was heard saying 'You're annoying me Ben, you really are'; 'Don't tell me you didn't see that on your camera'; and 'Come round here again and I'll put my dog around your neck'.Mr Stanley said: 'She would reveal herself on the cameras. It had pretty much gotten out of control at this point and become an obsession.'One evening, her anger boiled over and she threw a rock at the Ring camera – which prompted the couple to try to find out more about her.Marketing manager Miss Williams said: 'Ben and I Googled her and we found a news report where she had attacked someone previously with a glass.'So I was fearful of her. I didn't really know what it would take to make her switch or if she was going to be capable of violence.' Mr Stanley reported Gray to the RSPCA for kicking her dog, after it was caught on his camera Mr Stanley and Miss Williams watch videos of their neighbour making their lives a miseryIt turned out Gray already had 18 convictions including glassing a former partner and assaulting a police officer.The situation deteriorated further when Mr Stanley said he could hear Gray's dog 'yelping', before she returned to the flat – when she 'started kicking the dog in the head'.Gray was also seen shouting at the dog: 'Come on before the door shuts. Get in, you doughnut.'Mr Stanley said: 'I called the RSPCA right away. The RSPCA sent her a letter saying that we've seen a video of you kicking your dog in the head in the hallway of your property - please can you not do that.'It was obvious that the only place that could have come from was from the camera that I'd put there.'Miss Williams added: 'It was the right move and I stand by what Ben did, but I never expected her to blow up in the way that she did.'Gray then said on the Ring camera: 'Come here and tell me to my face to get rid of my dog. See what happens. I ain't messing no more.'She added: 'I've already got a hit put out on you' and 'You shouldn't have done that.'Mr Stanley said: 'It was at that point that things started getting really bad, really nasty, and violent. Threats, consistently threatening to harm me, to harm Emma.'Kill me. Threats of arson to burn the place down. She had a partner that was coming around to see her. Threats that as soon as I go out that he'd have my legs broken. And this was like every night now.'Gray then told the camera: 'One more time you complain about me and we'll have murders.'Miss Williams said she started having panic attacks, adding that she would wake up thinking: 'What's going to happen today? Is she going to steal anything? Is she going to break anything? Will we sleep tonight? Will we sleep tomorrow?' Gray would make chilling death threats towards the couple on a Ring doorbell camera outside Gray had 18 convictions including glassing a former partner and assaulting a police officer Mr Stanley continued: 'There was one time where she said that her ex-partner's going to come here with a gun.'I got a baseball bat and had that next to the front door. So if anyone were to come around, at least I had something that we could defend ourselves with.'Gray was also recorded saying: 'He's going to kill you, yeah go on, tell that to the...'She had smashed two Ring doorbells in less than a year and also allowed her dog to foul their doorstep.Gray also lit a gigantic bonfire in the garden when the couple tried to have a barbecue – which resulted in Mr Stanley calling the London Fire Brigade.Mr Stanley and Miss Williams then went on holiday in an attempt to escape the harassment, but the abuse continued via the doorbell camera.The couple made repeated complaints to police, until officers finally turned up at the door.Mr Stanley said: 'I'll never forget it. They come in and completely take the door out and then a whole bunch of police officers go in there and they take her out. I knew that time was like 'this is it, she's gone'.'But after Gray was finally prosecuted and a judge ordered her into custody, she managed to escape from court and went on the run for weeks.Court cases involving Gray were adjourned multiple times before she was finally sentenced.When she was eventually jailed for 40 months, Judge Peter Lodder told Gray: 'You made the lives of your neighbours hell. You persistently harassed them morning, noon and night. Gray allowed her dog to foul on the couple's doorstep at their property in south-west London Gray was jailed for three years and four months in July 2025 after her campaign of abuse'Despite orders being obtained to seek to prevent you from behaving in the way you did, you continued in your campaign. It may well be that you were under the influence of alcohol, but that is not an excuse - it's an aggravation.'It's no consolation at all to the people you were threatening with extreme violence. This was over a period of six months. You well knew what you were doing.'The judge also granted a ten-year restraining order which bans Gray from going within a mile of the victims' address and from contacting them.A further charge of failing to comply with a community protection notice was dealt with by a two-year conditional discharge at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court in June last year.Gray read a personal letter to the judge out in court, in which she apologised for her actions but claimed Mr Stanley had used her as 'bait' to make his partner 'jealous'.Her defence lawyer Tammy Sher also told the court several car accidents had driven her to alcohol and that she had suffered from suicidal thoughts.Wandsworth Borough Council has previously accepted that the authority could have acted faster following Mr Stanley's complaints about Gray, who was later dubbed 'Britain's worst neighbour' in the media.In a new statement issued to the Daily Mail this week, Councillor Matthew Corner, the council's cabinet member for housing, said: 'We take anti-social behaviour and crime very seriously.'We recognise the significant impact this case had on neighbouring residents and take their concerns extremely seriously.'Following Ms Gray's conviction, the council secured an injunction preventing her from returning to this address and regained possession of the property.'The Housing Ombudsman investigated the council's handling of the case and did not find maladministration. We have nevertheless offered reasonable redress in recognition of the impact on the residents concerned.'A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told the Daily Mail: 'Drina Gray conducted herself appallingly, and we extend our sympathies to her victim, who endured an unrelenting campaign of harassment.'The defendant admitted to numerous offences – including harassment and criminal damage – following a Met investigation.''At War With Next Door' from Kalel Productions airs on Channel 5 tomorrow at 8pm