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A couple have lost their entire life savings after they bickered with their neighbours over a fence. Graham and Katherine Bateson, from Snettisham in Norfolk, have poured £45,000 into lawyers’ fees to challenge a fence erected by their neighbour Wendy Leedham in 2019. Leedham, who passed away in 2021, obtained legal advice which said she could put the fence up prior to her death. The Batesons have since sought an injunction to have it taken down, arguing that it blocked the entrance to the drive of their home. When the couple bought the two-bedroom property on Brent Avenue, near King’s Lynn, f…

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