A farmer claims that his neighbor has poisoned his crops, damaged his property and killed one of his chickens in a bitter dispute over the property line.
Surveillance footage purportedly shows Scott Stone entering Parley Hellewell’s garden in the early hours of May 20 and spraying the plants with an unknown chemical.
Within three days, the crops were dead but not before many poisoned plants were unwittingly fed to several young children and a mother who was breastfeeding her young baby, the farmer claims.
Surveillance footage purportedly shows Scott Stone entering Parley Hellewell’s garden in the early hours of May 20 and spraying the plants with an unknown chemical. Pictured is the moment Hellewell confronted his intruder
Hellewell (pictured) was left devastated by the act of mindless vandalism. ‘We live off our garden,’ he said on the footage. ‘I spend all day, everyday, working in this garden. It’s my pride and joy’
The video, posted on YouTube by Skyler Holman last month, captured a figure appearing to spray the crops in the dark, before he was heard cutting something which seems to have been Hellewell’s watering system pipes.
Hellewell was then seem coming out to confront the man who shouted: ‘You put stuff in my land, Parley!’
The footage states that Hellewell called the cops and the intruder, allegedly Stone, was charged with criminal mischief and given a court date on the spot.
Hellewell said later in the video that his chicken became sick and died a few days after his neighbor sprayed his crops but was sure if it was because the bird had eaten the poisoned or plants or ‘if he did anything to the chicken.’
Hellewell said later in the video that his chicken became sick and died a few days after his neighbor sprayed his crops
The aftermath shows broken water pipes which have been cut and dumped on the crops
Hellewell (pictured inpsecting the damage) says that the dispute with Stone began over their property border
He also found that the waste pipe had been blocked and the cut and damaged water pipes were strewn all over the garden. Most of the plants in that acre of land were destroyed.
Another clip showed water pouring into his garden from under the fence, flooding his land.
Hellewell was left devastated by the act of mindless vandalism.
‘We live off our garden,’ he said on the footage. ‘I spend all day, everyday, working in this garden.
‘It’s my pride and joy.’
He said that he also gives a lot of crops to the elderly in his local area. But most of the potatoes he grew to donate had been destroyed.
Hellewell says that the dispute with Stone began over their property border. Stone believes that the dividing fence is in the wrong place by several feet to the benefit of his neighbor.
But Hellewell insists that the fence has been in place for around 50 years and as such is protected by law which states that any border in place for more than 20 years becomes the new boundary.