The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

Episode 3 (1x3)

Date de diffusion: Avr 15, 2014

Barry and Phyllis Roddis were enjoying an idyllic retirement in their quiet Barnsley neighbourhood until new neighbour Barrie Barker moved in next door and started scrapping cars in his driveway. When Mr Roddis led a neighbourhood appeal to stop the noise, he became the target of Mr Barker's anger. A nine-year campaign of intimidation, verbal and physical abuse followed, which had a devastating effect on the pensioners' lives and finally resulted in a prison sentence for Mr Barker. When Maurice Forsyth-Grant's family fell on hard times, they were forced to vacate and finally sell their ancestral home, Ecclesgreig Castle in Scotland. However, they were able to keep a small part of the estate and a few out buildings in which Maurice now lives. When businessman Gavin Farquhar and his company bought the now dilapidated castle, Maurice hoped that they would restore it and the estate to its former glory. However, the new owners' plans for the castle were very different, resulting in a dispute between the neighbours that has raged for years, leaving the castle, surrounding roads and land to fall further into disrepair. In Streatham in south London, squatters have made life hell for Richard and Philomena Chadwick, who have been battling to evict them for five years. Their next-door neighbours' bongo playing parties and rooftop sunbathing have destroyed the privacy of the Chadwick's once secluded garden, but constant appeals to the authorities have fallen on deaf ears due to a loophole in the law. Squatting is allowed in commercial properties – and the neighbouring building to the Chadwick's was previously an antique shop as well as a home. For now the squatters are not budging, but Richard is not giving up without a fight...