A major of-fence? Ex-England rugby star is held for 'extreme violence'... on his detective neighbour's fence

David Pears, ex-Harlequins rugby participant, was arrested in west London after smashing a fence constructed by his neighbour

One is a former England rugby star, the opposite a retired Scotland Yard detective – so you'd suppose they've each had far rougher battles to deal with.

However a easy boundary dispute between two neighbours spiralled so uncontrolled it ended up in court docket with accusations of utmost violence…on a fence.

Ex-Harlequins participant David Pears, 49, was arrested at his £1.1million dwelling in Twickenham, West London, after smashing right into a fence constructed by his neighbour between their gardens whereas he was on vacation.

Denzil Kerans, the ex-detective chief inspector who lives behind him, known as police claiming he and his spouse feared for his or her security. 

He later stated he had been 'traumatised', including: 'I'm a sufferer of this man's excessive and gratuitous violence. He subjected my fence to excessive violence.'

Mr Pears, who works as an equities dealer after retiring from rugby, was charged with prison injury. However magistrates threw out the case, ruling he by no means meant to wreck the construction completely.

The ugly row follows years of wrangling that started with the boys falling out over the felling of a tree.

Mr Kerans, 59, instructed police he heard loud banging on July 7 and noticed Mr Pears, who had simply returned from his second dwelling within the Yorkshire Dales, 'repeatedly lunging' at his new fence. 

Denzil Kerans, left, known as police and claimed he was left traumatised and fearing for his security after Mr Pears, proper in his rugby enjoying days, smashed the fence 

'He thrust ahead and gave the impression to be taking working jumps to again up the sheer brute power,' he instructed Wimbledon Magistrates' Court docket. 'I instructed the police I wanted pressing help as a result of my property was underneath assault. The injury was excessive.

'I recorded 9 affect factors and the panels had been prised aside. It was terrifying. I used to be traumatised. My spouse was mendacity on the couch in a state of catatonic shock.'

A number of dents had been left within the eight.5ft fence and Mr Kerans stated he was quoted £1,500 to restore it. The fence had changed a wood one Mr Pears had put in, which his neighbour stated encroached on his property. Mr Pears admitted pushing the fence to see if it could transfer, claiming it was 9in over the boundary. 

He instructed the court docket that when he and spouse Sally, 52, returned to their Victorian home after their two-week break they 'discovered my fence had disappeared and there was an enormous inexperienced fence tight in opposition to my summer season home'.

The house of David Pears, who's locked in an acrimonious 10-year lengthy neighbour dispute with retired DCI Denzil Kerans

He stated: 'It was constructed on my patio space so I pushed it to see if it could return to the boundary. There was a dent the place I pushed it one time.'

The court docket heard the boys first fell out after Mr Kerans was accused of illicitly slicing down a big silver birch. Then, there was a string of testy emails when Mr Pears utilized to increase his property. By 2011 the scenario had turn out to be so tense Mr Kerans accused Mr Pears of 'deceit, subterfuge and lying'.

Mr Kerans stated the allegation about felling the tree was 'false and malicious' and denied pursuing a 'private vendetta'. Mrs Pears instructed the court docket: 'We've put up with threats for a decade, we're used to it.'

After a brief deliberation, magistrates agreed the fence was 'unfamiliar' and Mr Pears wouldn't have identified he may injury it so simply and didn't intend to trigger injury. After the case, Mr Kerans, who lives together with his spouse Lorraine, 62, stated he could now sue his neighbour.

Talking via an intercom at his £850,000 dwelling, which has three CCTV cameras and metallic window grilles, he branded the ruling 'perverse'. He stated he gave Mr Pears written warning he would erect the fence. 

Requested why they might not kind it out between them, he stated: 'Imagine me I attempted, I delight myself on it. I'd stroll 100 miles to not upset a neighbour.' 

Mr and Mrs Pears declined to remark additional.

 

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