A retired firefighter posted footage online of his neighbour hacking down shrubs in his garden while he was on holiday. Ian Walton, 54, has been embroiled in an eight-year row with Maxine Johnson, which began with a parking dispute shortly after he moved in next door in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Police have been called out repeatedly to deal with allegations including criminal damage to a fence.
Ms Johnson, who is in her forties, claims that they fell out after Mr Walton wrote her love letters and she “spurned his advances”, but he claims that the letters were forged. The row escalated this year when Ms Johnson claimed that flowers from a bush in Mr Walton’s garden were touching her car and damaging the paintwork. When he