The moment 'Britain's worst neighbour' threatened to kill London couple on Ring doorbell clip

A couple from southwest London have revealed how an 18-month campaign of abuse from “Britain’s worst neighbour” made them feel like prisoners in their own home.Ben Stanley, 32, and partner Emma Williams, 31, have spoken about their ordeal in new Channel 5 documentary series “At War With Next Door”, which begins on Wednesday evening.They say that Drina Gray, 52, harassed Mr Stanley at all hours after moving into the flat below him in a block in Wandsworth.Gray vacuumed and played loud music in the middle of the night, stole parcels from outside their door, and made death threats on a Ring doorbell camera.She suggested she would kill Mr Stanley by sending her former partner to his home with a gun or burn down the flat after he reported her to the RSPCA for kicking her dog, The Daily Mail reports. Emma Williams and Ben Stanley received several death threatsChannel 5Mr Stanley said he had recorded 140 separate incidents of harassment over 18 months and Gray was arrested following repeated complaints to Wandsworth Council and the Metropolitan Police, and jailed for three years and four months in June 2025.Gray pleaded guilty to harassment, two counts of criminal damage and using threatening words and behaviour, with the judge saying she made her neighbours' lives 'hell'.Mr Stevens had bought the former council flat in 2022, with Gray later moving into the flat downstairs in April 2023.When he knocked on her door to say hello, she shouted “f*** off” through the door. Soon, she began regularly making noises in the middle of the night.Mr Stanley said Gray became jealous of Miss Williams and made inappropriate comments, describing Mr Stanley as “having sexy eyes”. Read MoreHe added Gray “weaponised the cameras” on his property to get in touch with him, knowing that once Mr Stanley’s Ring doorbell was pushed, it would send the video footage to his phone.On one such video, Gray could be heard saying: “Come round here again and I'll put my dog around your neck.”The situation deteriorated further when Mr Stanley witnessed Gray kicking her dogChannel 5When she threw a rock at the couple’s Ring camera one evening, they decided to try to find out more about her and an online search revealed that she had 18 previous convictions, including glassing a former partner and assaulting a police officer.The situation deteriorated further when Mr Stanley witnessed Gray kicking her dog.After he reported her to the RSPCA, Ms Gray received a letter from them saying they had seen video of her kicking the animal and she knew that the footage must have come from Mr Stanley’s camera.Gray can then be seen in a variety of clips from the Ring camera, saying: “I've already got a hit put out on you” and “One more time you complain about me and we'll have murders.”Drina Gray made numerous threats via a Ring cameraChannel 5Mr 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.”Miss Williams claimed that she started having panic attacks, while Mr Stanley said he bought a baseball bat and had that next to the front door as “something that we could defend ourselves with.”The abuse continued, as Ms Gray smashed two Ring doorbells, allowed her dog to foul their doorstep, and lit a bonfire in the garden when the couple tried to have a barbecue.When Mr Stanley and Miss Williams went on holiday in an attempt to escape the harassment, the attacks continued via the doorbell camera.Following repeated complaints to police, eventually officers finally turned up at Gray’s door and a judge soon ordered her into custody.Gray was eventually arrested following several complaintsChannel 5However, she managed to escape from court and went on the run for weeks. Court hearings were adjourned multiple times before she was finally sentenced.Sentencing her to 40 months in jail, Judge Peter Lodder said: “You made the lives of your neighbours hell. You persistently harassed them morning, noon and night.“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.”Gray also received a ten-year restraining order, banning her from going within a mile of the victims' address or from contacting them.Wandsworth Borough Council has accepted that the authority could have acted faster following Mr Stanley's complaints, with Gray dubbed “Britain's worst neighbour” in the media.Councillor Matthew Corner, Wandsworth 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.'At War with Next Door will air on Channel 5 from Wednesday 11th November at 8pm.