This is an urgently needed piece of legislation to clear up this long
running festering sore over garden hedges.
I understand its at 2nd reading in parliament
Clear giudance over hedge heights is urgent
there must 100s of other festering disputes that could also end in a
killing over this issue...
all waiting to explode ..

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Police guard injured neighbour after fatal shooting

A man remains under police guard in hospital after his neighbour, said
to have been involved in a long-running dispute over a garden hedge,
was shot dead.

George Wilson, 66, was found with bullet wounds at his home on Friday
afternoon, and died shortly after being taken to hospital.

His 52-year-old next-door-neighbour was later discovered injured and
was also taken to hospital.

As police forensic officers continue to search the area, neighbours
say the pair had a dispute over a hedge which ran along the border
between the front gardens of their homes, in Webster Close, Lincoln.

One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said Mr Wilson, who he
had known all his life, had been involved in several arguments over
his garden hedge.

Michael Green, 48, who lives only a few doors from Mr Wilson's home,
said police asked him to leave his house yesterday and stand at the
end of the street while the incident was sorted out.

The shooting is believed to have happened at about 3.30pm. At 6.45pm
police discovered the second man, who was also injured. He was taken
to an undisclosed hospital, but the extent and nature of his injuries
has not been disclosed.

Scene of crime officers are expected to remain in the street over the
weekend and uniformed officers are carrying out house-to-house
inquiries.

A police spokesman said: "The 52-year-old man who was taken to
hospital yesterday is under arrest and with a police guard. For
operational reasons we still don't wish to disclose which hospital he
is being treated at or the nature of his injuries.

"However his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. He will
be questioned as soon as he is discharged from hospital. We don't know
when that will be."


Story filed: 15:47 Saturday 14th June 2003