A pensioner has been removed from her home after a five-year legal battle with her neighbour over a one foot strip of land.
Jenny Field, age 77, lost her bungalow in Poole, Dorset, when court bailiffs arrived at her door following the dispute with neighbour, Pauline Clark.
The pair have been embroiled in a boundary dispute over the strip of land between their homes since 2020.
The feud ended up in court after Ms Field hired contractors to take down a fence which separated their homes, claiming it had been moved 12 inches onto her land.
Ms Clark opened up legal proceedings and a judge ultimately ruled in her favour.
Ms Field, a grandmother, was evicted from her £420,000 home today in order to pay £113,266 in legal fees to her neighbour, including damages, after passing a deadline last month to pay the money owed.
According to the Daily Mail, Ms Field said: “They’ve changed the locks and won’t let me back in.
“How can I be evicted for something I haven’t done?
The dispute was sparked in 2020 over the strip of land between the pair’s homes
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“I have got nowhere else to go. This is my home and my property.”
Ms Field was initially ordered to pay £11,800 for the damage as well as £2,120 in legal costs when a judge ruled in her neighbour’s favour in December of 2022.
But, the total she owed rose to six figures after further court cases which saw Ms Field attempting to overturn the decision.
At a hearing last September, Bournemouth County Court District Judge, Ross Fentem, said: “This is a very long-running boundary dispute.
Another hearing over the boundary dispute was held at Bournemouth County Court last September
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GOOGLE“The defendant has, in various ways, sought to relitigate the original case.
“Every attempt to relitigate has failed. She appears to be convinced some form of fraud has taken place.
“There appears to be no reasoned basis for the allegation.”
Judge Fentem said there was no evidence in the documents that “any wrongdoing was committed”.
“I have no confidence at all the claimant will be paid what she is owed except by an order for sale,” he added.