A pair of OAP neighbours ended up in a fist fight following a furious row over a gate on their shared driveway.
Raymond Kynaston, 82, shares a driveway in Leebotwood, Shropshire, with his long-term neighbour Glyn Prosser, 66.
Kynaston, a former farmshop owner, sells eggs, pickled onions and hanging baskets on his farmyard, which he has owned for 52 years.
Prosser moved into a three-bed cottage six years ago next door. However, it wasn’t long until a debate emerged over a metal gateway.
The case ended up at Telford Magistrates Court
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Telford Magistrates Court heard how Prosser used to be able to keep the gate open so he could drive his car out by hooking it to Kynaston’s fence.
However, he wasn’t able to do that on April 24 as he attempted to leave with wife Barbara for a celebratory birthday meal.
Prosser told MailOnline: “Ray had blocked our driveway (with the gate) when we went to drive out so I got out of the car and started moving the gate.Then he attacked me. He grabbed me from behind and punched me to the ground.”
Prosser’s wife passed away three months later and now has put his cottage up for sale.
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Kynaston lost his wife Susan in 2019, admitted that he pushed Prosser to the ground. He said: “[Mr Prosser] always made out that I’m the villain in all this but he’s the one who yelled abuse.
“I had a stroke two years and my doctor said it was the stress of all this brought it on. I don’t want anything more to do with him. I’ve lived here for 52 years and I have no intention of going anywhere.”
Kate Cooper, defending Kynaston, said he was of previous good character and wanted the matter settled adding the “saga” over the gate had included it being thrown into a brook running alongside both properties.
She told the court: “My client knows he has gone over-the-top but it could be said to be the same for Mr Prosser.”
Kynaston featured in his local paper two years ago when he donated his late wife’s collection of hundreds of teddy bears to a charity who passed them on to children in difficult circumstances, including in Ukraine.
Magistrates fined Kynaston £230 and ordered him to pay Mr Prosser £150 in compensation and £85 prosecution costs.