Neighbour is compelled to pay £250,000 to woman next door with wasp hypersensitive reaction who sued over rotten apples which fell onto the garden of her cottage

Neighbor who is a gardener has been ordered to pay £250,000 to her wasp-allergic neighbour who sued her over a tree losing rotten apples into her Surrey lawn. 

Antoinette Williams acted like a 'faculty bully' and displayed 'disgraceful' behaviour in the direction of Barbara Pilcher after the neighbours clashed over a forty-foot Bramley apple tree.

Mrs Williams moved into her £600,000 cottage, in Dunsfold, close to Godalming, nearly forty years ago, whilst Mrs Pilcher sold the adjacent three-bedroom £500,000 cottage in 2010. 

Mrs Pilcher sued her neighbour after the tree dumped rotting apples onto her garden every season, bringing swathes of wasps drawn to the fruit.

However, what accompanied changed into a marketing campaign of centered harassment wherein Mrs Williams again and again stared at her neighbour thru a window, didn't prune the apple tree and saved a big stinky compost bin at the lowest of her very own lawn.

Following a five-day trial at Central London County Court, Judge Lawrence Cohen QC dominated in favour of Mrs Pilcher and ordered Mrs Williams to pay charges and damages amounting to around £250,000 on Wednesday.   

The neighbours first clashed in 2014 whilst fruit from the tree started falling over the fence and Mrs Williams refused to reduce it lower back. 

The courtroom docket heard that Mrs Pilcher were not able to apply the lowest of her lawn and changed into made to feel 'like a prisoner in her very own home'.

Her barrister, Oliver Newman, additionally instructed the courtroom docket that own circle of relatives contributors had stopped traveling the house due to the escalating feud together along with her neighbour.

Mr Newman instructed the courtroom docket: 'Upon Mrs Williams’ refusal to reduce the tree lower back, Mrs Pilcher exercised her proper to accomplish that in June 2014, which ended in a barrage of allegations from Mrs Williams that she had reduce the tree at an irrelevant time, reduce it lower back too some distance and had induced a terrible harvest.' 

'Due to this and Mrs Williams’ different behaviour which disenchanted Mrs Pilcher and led her to worry confrontation, she sooner or later felt not able to exercising her rights for worry of Mrs Williams’ reaction.

'Mrs Pilcher has as a end result been left not able to apply the lowest of her lawn because of the odor from rotting apples and the composters, the concern of falling apples and the concern of wasps, having been hospitalised in 2018 after being stung more than one instances with the aid of using wasps from a close-by wasps’ nest.'

She claimed damages for alleged nuisance over the apples, however Judge Cohen stated this unique difficulty were resolved at some point of the route of the trial after Mrs Williams 'agreed to have the tree professionally pruned'.

However, he provided Mrs Pilcher £12,000 in repayment for seven years of harassment that left her 'dreading coming home'.