 and husband Melanius have been ordered to pay £200k Credit: Champion News Service Ltd 5 An aerial view of the land at the centre of the dispute 5 The couple claimed docs showed the land was theirs The public health researcher was accused of "orchestrating" a land grab from her three neighbours. Her £1m south London home sits next to the small strip which the neighbouring properties' gardens back onto. Dr Paes was accused of ripping down the trellis around it back in 2017 "in a fit of rage when you were not getting your way". And after a three year battle, she was forced to stand in front of a judge at Central London Country Court where she was slammed for "bullying". After claiming the trellis was "already falling down", Dr Paes was accused of telling a "pack of lies". Her neighbours - Thomas and Florence Benton, Robert Gilder and Althea D'Lima, and Kaluarachige and Mohammed Shaffi - had previously used the land as communal garden space, the court heard. But in 2015, Dr Paes and finance boss husband Melanius began to claim Victorian documents proved it was actually theirs. From the witness box, she said the three couples had "deprived us of access to our land" by erecting fences in the wrong place and removing a gate. She said: "There used to be a big gap we could go along to maintain the wall, the issue for me came after July 2015 when we were blocked and didn't have." But for the neighbours, barrister James Sandham insisted that the land was being correctly used as part of their gardens, in line with the historical evidence. HR execs Mr Gilder and Ms D'Lima only moved in in 2016 before quickl){kind=link}
A DOCTOR who ripped down a fence in a neighbour row over a 20ft strip between their homes has been hit with a £200,000 bill.
Dr Veena Paes’ was accused of “orchestrating” a land grab from her three neighbours – with the bitter court battle coming to an end this week.
Her £1m south London home sits next to the small strip which the neighbouring properties’ gardens back onto.
Dr Paes was accused of ripping down the trellis around it back in 2017 “in a fit of rage when you were not getting your way”.
And after a three year battle, she was forced to stand in front of a judge at Central London Country Court where she was slammed for “bullying”.