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A British millionaire former police chief has been accused of taking revenge on his elderly neighbors by erecting a 2.5m high wall of straw bales in front of the boundary of his £25million home.
69-year-old landowner Stephen Bett, a former chief constable of Norfolk, erected the new barrier after 95 separate trees he had planted on the same site were uprooted by a mystery attacker overnight.
The thatched wall near the boundary of his land in Norfolk runs the length of his neighbor Maxine Turner’s garden.
The wall now prevents 78-year-old Mrs Turner from viewing Mr Bett’s horses at his 18th-century cottage in Thornham, Norfolk.
Her son John Turner, 50, who lives with his mother and looks after her during the week, accuses Mr Bett of erecting the haystacks as ‘an act of contempt’.
But Bett said he just didn’t want to watch his neighbors barbecue in the garden or hang their clothes on the line.
He said: “To be honest, I don’t want to see them having barbecue parties in the garden or hanging clothes on the line.”
“They have also cut their vegetation to have a better view, but no it is not a better view for me. Why should I watch what they do”.
“They don’t seem to care about privacy but I prefer it, so I raised the vegetation once but they cut it.”
While neighbor Turner said: “It seems he’s blaming me for stealing his trees because I’m the youngest here, but I didn’t do it.”
“He put the straw bales in front of my mother’s house because he wants to provoke us.”
“Mr. Bett has dozens of acres of land and could have put them anywhere, but he chose to put them there.”
“She used to watch the horses on the lawn and it was a real treat for her, but now all she can see is the straw wall.”
“My mother has lived here for 40 years and has never seen anything like this.”
Turner said Bett has previously upset neighbors by planting a tree line near his property line to obscure the view from four neighboring homes.
But the line of coniferous pines, which reached up to three meters in length, were suddenly cut down by a mysterious assailant on the night of July 2.
Local police say the man has the right to decide where he wants his hay bales.
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