A PENSIONER was forced to sleep rough after being booted-out of her home following defeat in a five-year legal battle with her neighbour.
Bailiffs evicted Jenny Field, 77, on Monday after a judge ordered that her property be sold to pay the £113,000 court costs she owes Pauline Clark.
The pair have been in a long running legal entanglement over a 1ft strip of land which has been rumbling on for five years.
When she was kicked out, the pensioner packed a few bags of belongings before the locks of her £420,000 bungalow in Poole, Dorset, were changed.
But heartbreakingly, the OAP said she spent Monday aimlessly wandering around with her possessions before spending the night on the streets.
Jenny has since attended BCP Council offices to try and secure emergency housing, reports the Daily Mail.
The granny said she has been told she has three weeks to move her furniture and belongings out of the three-bedroom property – which she has owned since 2016 – before it is sold.
She said: “It’s just a nightmare. I’m waiting to speak to someone at the council about emergency housing. It’s a long drawn out process.
“But I’ve got nowhere to put it; I’ve got a lot of stuff – I’ve got three bedrooms.
“I’m going to contest it.”
The row in an otherwise quiet residential cul-de-sac centred on a fence that Mrs Clark put up in 2020.
Divorcee Jenny claimed her neighbour moved the fence 12 inches onto her land when she did so.
She hired her own contractors two months later and had the 6ft fence taken down. She later moved it to reclaim “her land”.
Mrs Clark took her to court and won, with Jenny ordered to cover the cost of the fence she took down and two-thirds of Mrs Clark’s legal fees, about £21,000 at the time.
But the defiant Jenny refused to accept the outcome and the case went back to court multiple times, sending the legal bill skyrocketing to six figures.
Last September a county court judge dismissed Jenny’s final appeal she brought amid claims Mrs Clark’s case had been fraudulent, which the judge described as “totally without merit”.
Judge Ross Fentem said the “draconian order” was a last resort but that Ms Field had every opportunity to pay.
After the deadline passed Mrs Clark’s solicitors successfully applied for an eviction notice.
Jenny has failed to put her home up for sale and instead besieged the courts with emails and letters insisting her neighbour was in the wrong.
She stuck a sign on her front door stating that any attempt to evict her was invalid and that she was being harassed.
After being removed from her home, Ms Field repeatedly rang the doorbell and asked to be let in.
