I was horrified when my neighbour ripped apart my late husband’s garden

DEAR DEIDRE: RETURNING from visiting my grandchildren recently, I was horrified to find my neighbour had hacked down each the mature bushes and shrubs my precocious hubby had planted successful my garden.

Now it feels similar I can’t unbend successful my location immoderate more.

I’m 62. My hubby was a precise keen gardener and aft his decease 5 years ago, I didn’t person the bosom to usage the plot overmuch and it dilatory turned into a spot of a wilderness.

He had planted bushes each on the obstruction betwixt america and adjacent door, and they changeable up, but I didn’t deliberation anyone minded. I liked the privateness arsenic our neighbours person young kids and tin beryllium rather loud.

When I returned from seeing my family, each the bushes had gone. It was conscionable the bare, disfigured obstruction on the side.

I checked my video doorbell and saw my neighbour had travel into my plot and attacked the hedges with a chainsaw portion I was away.

He didn’t halt to see my feelings, helium conscionable strolled in.

He indispensable deliberation I’m truthful weak-willed that helium tin locomotion each implicit me.

I consciousness violated. I’m frightened of confrontation, truthful I person said nothing. Now I’m excessively fearful to permission the house.

My lad says I should complain, but I’m disquieted it’ll origin hostility if I do.

My anxiousness is done the roof. With each sound I presume my neighbour is creeping astir with the chainsaw.

DEIDRE SAYS: Neighbourly disputes are precise stressful. You mightiness consciousness you’re “weak-willed” but I recognize wherefore you haven’t confronted your neighbour.

As a pistillate successful her 60s surviving alone, you astir apt consciousness rather vulnerable.

You nary uncertainty imagined you would beryllium capable to trust connected your neighbours if you ever needed them, but alternatively they invaded your abstraction erstwhile you went away.

This could beryllium classed arsenic transgression harm and trespass. Your neighbour is entitled to chopped down overhanging branches connected their broadside of the bound wall, but destroying your mature shrubs and bushes is different matter.

If you don’t privation them to proceed to instrumentality advantage, you request to instrumentality a stand.

Getting ineligible proposal would beryllium a sensible archetypal move. You tin get escaped proposal done Citizens Advice. For your section branch, spot citizensadvice.org.uk.

I americium besides sending you my enactment battalion Nuisance Neighbours, which should help.