Widow, 79, loses home amid bitter battle with neighbour over £300 fence

Widow, 79, loses home amid bitter battle with neighbour over £300 fence

Muriel Middle, is in an ongoing battle with her businessman neighbour, Alexander Miles (Picture: Athena Pictures) A pensioner can no longer afford to live in her home after losing a legal battle against her neighbour in a row over a piece of fence. Muriel Middle, 79, has lived in her mid-terrace home in Pontyclun, South Wales, for 20 years but has been ordered to pay back £15,000 in legal fees after the warring dispute with her neighbour Alexand…

A 79-year-old woman from Wales is broke after a dispute with her neighbour over a wooden fence. The widow, who could not afford a lawyer, was ordered in the Justice of the Peace to pay all of the businessman’s legal costs. In order to avoid bankruptcy, she had to sell her house to her daughter. “I don’t think I’ll live long after this,” she said.