A pensioner crept out of his house in the middle of the night to rip up his neighbours’ flowers and throw turf into their garden in a row over a “two-inch strip of land”, a court heard.
The bizarre dispute between John Weiniger, 72, and James and Samantha Miller, his next-door neighbours, took place in the quiet Oxfordshire village of Mollington.
It all began when a previous neighbour of Weiniger allegedly stole “a two-inch piece of land” by moving a fence at the rear of his driveway, which he shared with the pensioner.
Weiniger, who admitted he could be “rambunctious” at times, claimed this meant he could no longer take Captain, his African grey parrot, out for car trips because he was unable to get the bird into his vehicle.
When the Millers, both respected surgeons, bought the £950,000 house and moved in, Weiniger decided to wage a campaign of harassment against his new neighbours in a bid to reclaim his land.
