Retired teacher, 60, in bitter row with neighbour ‘who stole 1.1m of her garden’

Rose Smith and the hot tub and fence at the centre of the dispute (Picture: Tony Kershaw/SWNS)

A grandmother is locked in a bitter battle with her neighbours claiming they stole 1.1 metres of her garden.

Rose Smith, 60, spent £12,500 and five months transforming the end of her garden, by adding decking and a hot tub, in time for her birthday.

But the retired teacher was devastated when she says she got home from work to find the fence ‘ripped up’ and part of the lawn had been ‘cut out’.