The Architects Registration Board struck Dr Karin Elliott off for a minimum of two years after finding her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct by sending inappropriate communications.

The tribunal found she used “inflammatory language, making a series of misleading and potentially damaging accusations” in 2024 against her neighbours “with scant regard to their accuracy”.

The board said the Irish-American architect’s actions were “misleading, lacking integrity and dishonest”.

Ms Elliott accused one neighbour of “racial harassment” through false claims that he wielded a chainsaw in her garden in Norwich, the tribunal heard.

The architect’s partner, Francois Girardin, told the tribunal that none of the neighbours said “anything directly racist”.

However, Mr Girardin, who is French, made an “inference” of racism from how “sometimes a Union Jack would appear” and “a wall had been constructed after the US president had talked about building a big wall to keep out immigrants”, the tribunal heard.

Mr Girardin also said whenever England played sport, a........

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