A NOTORIOUS former East Oxford resident, who was given an Asbo for making his neighbours’ lives a misery, has died.

Leslie Belcher, 51, died at Lucy Faithfull House in Speedwell Street on Wednesday.

South Central Ambulance Service was called at about 8.30pm to reports that a man was unconscious and not breathing.

Police are treating the death as unexplained but do not believe it to be suspicious and have passed the matter to the coroner.

An inquiry has not yet opened.

Mr Belcher was in and out of the courts for tormenting his neighbours in Magdalen Road.

He received a two-year Asbo, an Antisocial Behaviour Order, in October 2010 banning him from drinking in public, congregating with anyone other than his family in Magdalen Road and using intimidating language or behaviour.

In January 2011, he controversially received an absolute discharge after he admitted thrusting a ball-bearing gun into another man’s face to break up an argument.

In September 2011, he angered neighbours and council officials when he dumped a sofa outside his home, arguing he had been forced to because, despite repeated calls, the council had not picked it up.

He was eventually jailed, for six weeks, later that month after a court found him guilty of breaching his Asbo for shouting abuse at neighbours and drinking with friends in his garden.

During the trial he was removed from the dock for shouting, swearing and interrupting witnesses.

He was evicted from his home in October 2011.