A bitter neighbour boundary dispute has been settled in court - after raging for DECADES.
The row between two warring pensioners revolves around a quarter of an acre of disputed territory - with both parties saying it has cost them tens of thousands and affected their mental health.
The row between two warring pensioners revolves around a quarter of an acre of disputed territory - with both parties saying it has cost them tens of thousands and affected their mental health.
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00:00Our neighbour on that side decided that she wanted to steal a quarter of an acre of our land, which of course we didn't agree with.
00:14We've had surveys done that have told her that our line was correct.
00:21She's had one survey that tells her that her line is correct.
00:28But all the way along she has been obstructive, she's ignored letters, she's not wanted to do anything other than put her fence in the position that she feels is correct, which is wrong with all the surveys.
00:45She was offered the chance to do a shared survey, she rejected and we agreed to settle on whatever the shared survey came across.
00:57She disagreed, she didn't want to do it, and she stuck it out right to the very end.
01:04It's finished up in court and the judge has said, well, she's come down in our favour, saying that our fence was correct all along.
01:11But the judge has decided, for some unknown reason, that he was not going to allow us all the costs.
01:18So this lady has caused us grief for about four years, she caused grief for my mother, and it's finished up costing us quite a lot of money just to put our fence back where it was in the first place, in the correct place.
01:34I'm Angela. I've owned this land since 1972. It was in mid-1990s that I caught Mr Revel moving the fence, and when I approached him he said that he'd measured the land and found my fence was in the wrong place.
01:52I asked him to get a surveyor. He told me I didn't need a surveyor and the fence they put in will not move.
02:02And I reiterated at the time that we did meet, in the mid-90s, that I would have a surveyor in time.
02:11But I couldn't afford a surveyor, I couldn't afford anything at that point.
02:16And obviously you had a surveyor, in the end you got a surveyor.
02:20I had a surveyor, he came along, yes, and placed the markers.
02:26And when I informed Mr Ian Revel that the markers had been placed, he came along and threw them out all over the field.
02:37So I had to pay again, ask them and ask them to get a surveyor.
02:41But when my surveyor came, I just let him get on with the job. I don't know nothing about surveying.
02:48But his surveyor came along and I don't know why or how they got the fence where they wanted it.
02:56The judge said he didn't believe me that I put a fence up, even though I'd got a photograph there.
03:01He told me I lied. The barrister of Mr Revel asked me if I did catch Mr Revel and his late father moving the fence and I said yes I did.
03:13And he just turned to me and said, you lied!
03:16The court went with their surveyor. That's something that needs to be looked at.
03:20I'm not allowing two surveyors' reports in court and I'm looking at going further and appealing to High Court.