Farmer vows to ‘die in prison’ rather than pay fine for knocking down a wall

Ron said he would rather ‘die in prison’ than pay the more than £3,000 in fines (Picture: SWNS)

An 88-year-old farmer has said he would rather ‘die in prison’ than pay fines for knocking down part of a boundary wall he built himself.

Ron Knight says he’s faced six years of a ‘living nightmare’ after he received a planning enforcement notice for knocking down part of a concrete wall to allow access to his land.

He helped to build the wall in 1973, but claims when he took part of it down in 2017 he was told it was ‘historic’...