A woman who embarked on a two-month phone harassment campaign has appeared in court.

Prosecutors said the victim asked Mckeisha Smith to stop phoning her Warwick house, but the calls became more disruptive.

Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrosson said the defendant sometimes rang the unlisted number in the early hours of the morning, waking the complainant and her daughter. Sometimes Smith would hang up without speaking, the court heard.

The complainant reported Smith, 30, of Turtle Place, Southampton, to Police last September. They checked her phone records at the Bermuda Telephone Company and they tallied with numerous complaints made by the victim.

Smith, defending herself, said there was years of bad feeling between herself and the complainant over a boyfriend. She said it was "ironic" that she was in court, because the complainant used to harass her.

"It was totally out of character," she added. "It will not happen again."

Smith, who has no previous convictions and was described in court as a professional, admitted making repeated phone calls with the intention of causing harassment, between July 22 and September 22, 2005.

The defendant was given an absolute discharge.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner encouraged the media not to publish the name and address of the defendant after hearing the facts of the case, but The Royal Gazette decided it was in the public interest to do so.