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Man left disfigured by neighbour after being battered during garden dispute

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A dad, who moved house after savagely beating his vulnerable former next-door neighbour so badly that he is now disfigured, has been put behind bars.Matthew Bennellick attacked Andrew Tucker while he was working on his garden on the morning of July 23, 2021.Plymouth Crown Court heard how there was a "long-standing dispute" between the two sets of neighbours - who had lived next door to each other for 12 years - over a "building control application" made a number of years previous to the attack.

The court heard how Mr Tucker was in hospital for several days and later had procedures to insert four metal plates in his face and head, Grimsby Live reports.Mr Tucker's left eye was now permanently lower than his right and he suffered nerve damage to his lip and nose, causing him to dribble when he drank so that he needed to use a straw to drink.She said that he was set to received reconstructive surgery at a future date.Prosecutor Sophie Johns said that on that day Bennellick's wife approached Mr Tucker where a brief conversation took place over the foot-high wall which separated them.

However, following the exchange of words - which Ms Johns did not elaborate on in court - she left and returned to the family garden in Victoria Road, St Budeaux where she, Bennellick and their two children were.

However later that day, Bennellick, who had been strimming in his front garden, approached Mr Tucker, pushed his forehead against Mr Tucker's before exclaiming that Mr Tucker had headbutted him.She said Bennellick grabbed Mr Tucker by the throat before pushing him to the floor whereupon he struck him "15 or 20 times".Ms Johns said Bennellick shouted: "Die, b***ard", telling the older man to "stay down".

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