A widower who brought misery to his elderly next door neighbours with a 13 year bombardment of insults across their garden fence has been fined £100.
Former Conservative Party Parliamentary candidate Brendan Murphy, 79, labelled Christopher Boyd a "peeping Tom'' and his wife Margaret, a ''tart'' after they fell out over a dispute about local gossip.
Whenever Mr Boyd, 76, and his 74-year old wife would sweep leaves from the driveway of their £500,000 home in Disley, near Stockport, Greater Manchester, Murphy would bellow: ''Morning Tom, how’s your tart today’?'' from his home next door.
On one occasion while Mr Boyd was doing DIY on his roof, Murphy said: “You can do a lot of peeping from up there, you peeping Tom,” and added: “Make sure you
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