Pensioner lost £575,000 home after court battle over how she parked her car

The judge said Marie Potter’s case was ‘yet another cautionary tale about the financial consequences of neighbour disputes’ (Picture: Champion News)

A pensioner who lost her £575,000 home in a neighbour dispute over how she parked her Ford Focus has lost another court fight to win it back.

When Marie Potter, 75, moved into her house in Bennett’s Avenue, Shirley, Croydon, in 1998, neighbour Kirsten McGowan was already there and their families initially got on well, she says.

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