Moment elimination males take out pensioner’s possessions after she misplaced five-year row with neighbour over 12inch strip of land

This is the moment removal men take out the final possessions of a pensioner who was evicted from her home after losing a five-year legal row over a strip of land. 

Jenny Field, 77, was evicted from her £420,000 bungalow and forced to live in a hostel after a long-running legal battle with her neighbour, Pauline Clark. 

And while the pensioner has vowed to keep fighting the case, removal men dressed in all black, could be seen making their way into her home.

After they entered her home to retrieve her belongings, the grandmother can be seen seemingly speaking with an individual, also dressed in black, outside the property. 

Lawyers acting on behalf of her neighbour gave Ms Field until mid-February to empty her belongings and furniture, or they would be dumped.

Last September, Ms Field was told by a judge that she had to sell the cul-de-sac bungalow in Hamworthy, Dorset, to cover her neighbour’s £113,000 legal fees. 

Yet she failed to auction the property off, and on January 26, bailiffs arrived, forcing her to leave with just a few bags and her mobile phone. 

The now-empty suburban home will be put on the market in a bid to cover Mrs Clark’s six-figure legal fees accumulated in the row. 

After paying off her neighbour’s legal bills, the pensioner will have around £300,000 to buy a new property. 

In 2020, Ms Clark erected a boundary fence between their homes, which her pensioner neighbours claimed was moved 12inch onto her land. 

Ms Field then hired contractors to reposition the 6ft high fence, after which her neighbour took the matter to county court and won. 

The 77-year-old was ordered to cover the costs of the dismantled fence and two-thirds of her neighbour’s fees, amounting to £21,000.  

However, Ms Field continued to battle against the outcome, bringing the matter back to court several times, increasing the legal bill to £113,000.

The pensioner previously claimed her former neighbour was ‘jealous’ before revealing her children had urged her to move out of the ‘toxic’ area.

‘I should have taken the chance to move out ages ago, but I stayed in the area and modernised my property. I made it really nice,’ she said.

‘I want to move right out of the area completely. My children have told me to get out of the area as it’s toxic.’ 

Mrs Field has been staying at the local hostel but is expected to be moved into temporary accommodation.

‘I am a vulnerable 77-year-old woman. I am stressed out, completely stressed out,’ she added.

‘They’ve decided that I have lost the case, but they want £113,000. It’s been absolutely ridiculous.’

Last September, a judge at Bournemouth County Court dismissed Ms Field’s final appeal over the case.

Mrs Field had tried to claim that Mrs Clark’s case had been fraudulent, which the judge described as ‘totally without merit’.

Judge Ross Fentem said the ‘draconian order’ to repossess her house was a last resort, but that Ms Field had had every opportunity to pay.

Mrs Clark’s solicitor Anna Curtis said there was ample equity in Mrs Field’s property for her to pay the debt. 

She also added that the pensioner would still be able to buy a comfortable retirement property mortgage-free and have cash leftover.

Passing his judgement at Bournemouth County Court last September, Judge Fentem said: ‘This is a very long-running boundary dispute. The defendant [Ms Field] has, in various ways, sought to relitigate the original case.

‘Her case is fundamentally that… the original fence was a boundary fence and that it was entirely on her land.

‘Every attempt to relitigate has failed. She appears to be convinced some form of fraud has taken place. There appears to be no reasoned basis for the allegation.

‘There is no evidence in the documentation any wrongdoing was committed.

‘I have no confidence at all the claimant [Mrs Clark] will be paid what she is owed except by an order for sale.

‘This matter needs resolution, the parties need to find a way of putting the entirety of this dispute behind them.

‘The order for sale is a last resort and draconian remedy but taking all the factors into account I should make an order for sale in this case.’