Given that he built an unauthorised leisure complex in his back garden – complete with casino, 16-seat cinema and bowling alley – one might have expected Graham Wildin to try to keep his neighbours happy.
But when they erected a 6ft-high fence, the millionaire accountant reacted with unrestrained fury.
These extraordinary images show him tearing it down in a fit of pique – fully aware that neighbour Felicity Black is filming him – before throwing a compost bin towards her.
Ms Black is heard accusing the businessman of criminal damage and trespass, and warns that her two-year-old child could fall into his garden.
Mr Wildin snaps back ‘It’s your bloody fault’ – before rocking the fence backwards and forwards until it collapses.
He took the drastic action because he believes the fence encroaches on to his land, while his neighbours believe their refusal to back him over his 10,000 sq ft building, which council planners have ordered him to pull down, is at the heart of his outburst.
The increasingly bitter dispute pitches wealthy grandfather- of-five Mr Wildin – whose driveway boasts a selection of luxury cars, including a Porsche Boxster and Mercedes-Benz coupé with personalised number plates – against decorator Ms Black and her partner Garry Thomas,…
