Furious OAP gets into neighbour’s digger bucket before hurling a ROCK to prevent him building a fence
AN OAP lay down in a mini-digger’s bucket to try to prevent a neighbour starting to erect a garden fence, JPs heard. Company director Alan McTear, 53, was inside a mini-digger laying a new fence when he was confronted by 73-year-old neighbour Christopher Woodward. A court heard Woodward first lay down in the digger bucket, […]
AN OAP lay down in a mini-digger’s bucket to try to prevent a neighbour starting to erect a garden fence, JPs heard.
Company director Alan McTear, 53, was inside a mini-digger laying a new fence when he was confronted by 73-year-old neighbour Christopher Woodward.
A court heard Woodward first lay down in the digger bucket, then hurled a head-sized rock at its driver, Alan McTear, 53.
It smashed the glass window of the mini-digger when their row over their garden fence reached boiling point.
It smashed the digger’s window but did not hurt company director Mr McTear, whose bodycam captured the incident.
Woodward “snapped” after a row over the ownership of a strip of land between their homes at Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
Mr McTear claimed it, while Woodward insisted it was a public footpath.
Woodward admitted criminal damage.
Robin Shellard, defending, said Woodward had lived in peace at his home in Tavernspite, near Whitland, for 15 years, until Mr McTear and his family moved in to a detached property 300 yards away.
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Mr Shellard said: “Mr Woodward had lived comfortably with neighbours for all those years, then found that the atmosphere had changed.”
He got a 12-month conditional discharge and must pay £317.74 compensation, Haverfordwest JPs ruled.
He also was handed a 12 month restraining order banning him from contacting Mr McTear of going within 50 metres of his house.
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