This is the Surrey owner who waited for her neighbors to travel to Australia before hiring builders to 'steal' a strip of their backyard.
Victoria Huyeng Myers took the extreme action after three years of a fight with the couple who lives in the commuters in the suburbs next to her £ 800,000 detached house.
Pensioners Rosa, 67, and Murray Bell, 71, only found out what happened when they signed up at their travel-of-a-lifetime for CCTV images that the builders of Myers at work in their own garden showed.
Now MailOnline can reveal how that attack marked an escalation in a bitter row between the two households where the boundaries were – and how the feud was initially fueled by an apparently trivial disagreement about the position of a gutter on an outbuilding.
It was the bitter row that developed from that gutter dispute in which combat lines were drawn between Mrs. Myers, a CEO of the company, her engineer husband Michael and the clocks who lived next to them in Tadworth, Surrey.
The feud between the two couple neighbors started in 2020 after the clocks received a building permit for a small extension.
The border problem only arose when the clocks expressed their concern about the overhanging gutter of the Myer, which would have influenced their expansion plans.
It was when both families had conducted their individual country border research that showed various results.
Victoria Huyeng Myers (photo) undertook after three years of arguing with the couple next to her £ 800,000 detached house in a commuter in the suburbs in Surrey
Rosa Bell, 67, and her husband Murray, 72, (photo) on holiday in Australia when their neighbor 'land' their garden 'has their garden
These unclear findings are due to the 'rough' nature of the actions that came from the 1930s and fail to clearly depict the actual boundary lines of the house.
The result was that both couples have apparently believed since that their only interpretation of their right to a wider garden was correct, while the similar faith of their neighbors was wrong
At this point, the clocks, which had bought the house as they were forever at home in 2019 for £ 670,000, did not continue to continue with the extension. They claimed: “Was it not worth after all the AGGRO.”
Since then, police officers have been called to the houses several times, the family has had a face in the provincial court and the disputed fence has been pulled down and restored three times.
Mrs. Bell said to MailOnline: 'What frustrates me is that if these people thought what they were doing was correct, and the law, why did they do it when we were always abroad? Why don't you do it while we are here? Why wait until we leave to let people invade our property? '
Instead, they converted their garage into a home office where their teachers' son could work in the pandemie from home.
In the next two years, the clocks were accused of the 'penetration' of the disputed rat run between the two houses.
The CCTV of the couple showed contractors who worked on their garden without their permission
The barn had fallen victim to the border of the border by the time they returned from vacation
It was only in December 2022, when the clocks were abroad for Christmas, that the first panels were removed from the fence by contractors.
During the coming weeks during the holidays, the couple watched while builders continued to remove the fence in the snow, leaving the border between the two exposed houses behind.
At that time, the clocks all claim their beautiful bushes and tulips, whereby their maple was constantly pruned back.
“We hadn't seen our daughter for four years, so we went through Christmas with her, but it was spoiled,” said Mrs. Bell.
'We saw everything they did on the camera when we were on the other side of the world.
'One day they would do one thing, they would do something else. It was as if they teased us, knowing that we were so far away. '
When they returned home in January 2023, the couple found more contractors on their property and put them on a new fence, apparently trying to penetrate 1.2 meters on one side of their garden and 76 cm on the other.
The fence was half complete and the clocks stopped the builders by sitting in protest from the cold on their terrace. It meant that the contractor was unable to build the new gate.
Contractors came and went out of their Surrey garden after their neighbors decided to claim 1.2 million at one end of their garden and 76 cm to the other
The marked area has been scribbled by the Bells' neighbors' neighbors'
“I was freezing there for almost a whole day, with Mrs. Myers and the contractor who just laughed there,” Mrs. Bell explained. “But we stopped them.”
'Another time we had to call the police because she hired someone to continue with the fence, because where our patio was after, it was still open after we stopped them.
“At this point they started bullying us, she threw things at my husband and at this point the police came and told them” that you should stop. “
At that time, the clocks took a lawyer who tried to mediate with them.
However, nothing was achieved by May 2023, so that the clocks decided 'enough is enough' and decided to put their own fence back on the 'original' line.
In June the clocks left their annual long summer vacation, but as soon as they hired the Myers to hire new contractors.
“Mrs. Myers got the contractors here, threw our fence down, broke our terrace at the back, left a big mess, moved our barn and put this sturdy fence up and it has been since then,” Mrs. Bell added.
“We stayed behind with the mess at the back, all the fence panels that lie here, the patio raised and she even cut the fence panels at the front of our house, so our house was not sure when we were gone.”
Damage to the backyard of the couple caused by the building of their neighbor
An aerial photo of the house and garden of the clocks in Tadworth, Surrey
Despite their protests against both the city council and the police, the bells could not reclaim their country and took the case behind the civil court.
De Bells have adopted compensation at Kingston-Upon-Thams County Court, which took place in October 2023.
Mr. Bell said: 'We brought them to court because of the compensation and entering. The damage was incredible. They killed the apple trees and Japanese maple trees – the damage was an absolute mess. I just start to try to clean up the mess now.
“Everything is done when we are away abroad and they have completely destroyed the patio at the back.”
However, the judge decided for the case for technical reasons – which states that the clocks, who had not hired a lawyer to help them, had not clearly explained the loss of £ 10,000 that they claimed.
The clocks had also said that they had suffered under 'significant financial and emotional damage' and 'mental need', but the judge said that no medical report had been provided to support it.
The decision of the court had the bell paid for the legal costs of the Myers.
Although the Myers technically has won the dispute, the clocks are still on being entitled.
The contents of the barn of Murray and Rosa Bell left on their terrace after it was moved to make way for the new border fence
The new fence founded along the edge of the clock garden
The judge had concluded that the clocks had established the claim about the 'damage to trees' in their garden and said, “Such a claim has no basis in the law if the trees were on the side of the border.”
Since then, the clocks have carried out a court investigation, which they claim to have legally had the border, which has been in force since the houses were initially built tens of years ago shortly after the First World War.
Mrs. Bell described the 'stressful situation' that she and her husband had to endure, said: 'We both retired and bought this beautiful house that would be home forever.
'But we have encountered such a unpleasant situation with the neighbors who decided to move their border screens to our property without an application for the court or agreement with us.
'We were gone to visit our daughter in Australia and they were able to invade our property, plants, trees, shrubs.
'We have tried to do everything to do justice. We have done surveys and spent a lot of money – but these people have just taken the law into their own hands.
'There have been no consequences for them – they broke in our garden, moved the barn and dumped everything for the doors of our kitchen terrace.
“I don't understand. This is a living hell. Our only option seems to spend a fortune on the reimbursements of the lawyers to combat it. '
Mr Myers added: “It's too stressful with all the junk they have made.”
The Myers, originally from New Zealand and bought their house in April 2018, were approached to comment on the current issue, but did not respond.
Earlier this week, Mrs. Myers, who runs Ice Phoenix engineers refused to respond to questions about the dispute.
But she said they had been those who had been 'harassed' and repeated that they 'had won a court' ruling on the claim for compensation.
