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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 \u00a325million home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The thatched wall near the boundary of his land in Norfolk runs the length of his neighbor Maxine Turner’s garden.<\/p>\n
The wall now prevents 78-year-old Mrs Turner from viewing Mr Bett’s horses at his 18th-century cottage in Thornham, Norfolk.<\/p>\n
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’.<\/p>\n
But Bett said he just didn’t want to watch his neighbors barbecue in the garden or hang their clothes on the line.<\/p>\n
He said: “To be honest, I don’t want to see them having barbecue parties in the garden or hanging clothes on the line.”<\/p>\n
“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”.<\/p>\n
“They don’t seem to care about privacy but I prefer it, so I raised the vegetation once but they cut it.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
“He put the straw bales in front of my mother’s house because he wants to provoke us.”<\/p>\n
“Mr. Bett has dozens of acres of land and could have put them anywhere, but he chose to put them there.”<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
“My mother has lived here for 40 years and has never seen anything like this.”<\/p>\n
Turner said Bett has previously upset neighbors by planting a tree line near his property line to obscure the view from four neighboring homes.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Local police say the man has the right to decide where he wants his hay bales.<\/p>\n
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