A PENSIONER has been evicted from her home after losing a five-year legal battle with her neighbour – over a 1ft strip of land.
Jenny Field refused to answer the door to court bailiffs when they arrived at her bungalow at 11am today.
She was heard shouting at them to leave her alone before a locksmith used an electric saw to remove the lock and gain entry to the £420,000 property.
Ms Field, 77, stepped outside in her slippers to explain her case to the bailiffs and was then refused reentry.
Her home will now be sold to pay next door neighbour Pauline Clark’s £113,000 legal fees. She will be allowed to return to remove her belongings.
Mrs Clark, 64, did not wish to comment on today’s events but her son-in-law Matthew Corbin watched on from the front garden of his mother’s home.
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The row in an otherwise quiet residential cul-de-sac in Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, centred on a boundary fence that Mrs Clark erected in 2020.
Grandmother Ms Field claimed her neighbour moved the fence 12 inches onto her land when she did so.
So she hired her own contractors two months later and had the 6ft fence taken down.
She later repositioned it to reclaim “her land”.
Mrs Clark took her to court and won, with Ms Field ordered to cover the cost of the fence she took down and two-thirds of Mrs Clark’s legal fees, about £21,000 at the time.
But Ms Field refused to accept the outcome and the case went back to court multiple times, sending the legal bill skyrocketing to six figures.
Last September a county court judge dismissed Ms Field’s final appeal she brought amid claims Mrs Clark’s case had been fraudulent, which the judge described as “totally without merit”.
She was given a deadline of December 6 to pay the £113,000 bill or her home would be sold from under her to settle the debt.
Judge Ross Fentem said the ‘draconian order’ was a last resort but that Ms Field had every opportunity to pay.
After the deadline passed Mrs Clark’s solicitors successfully applied for an eviction notice.
Ms Field has failed to put her home up for sale and instead besieged the courts with emails and letters insisting her neighbour was in the wrong.
She stuck a sign on her front door stating that any attempt to evict her was invalid and that she was being harassed.
After being removed from her home, Ms Field repeatedly rang the doorbell and asked to be let in.
Ms Field, a divorcee who bought the bungalow in 2016, said: “They’ve changed the locks and won’t let me back in.
“How can I be evicted for something I haven’t done?
“I have got nowhere else to go. This is my home and my property. I have had five years of this rubbish.
“I am really upset by the whole thing. I have been put through hell by that b**** next door.”
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