A neighbour has been convicted after pursuing a harassment campaign against a City lawyer and his businesswoman wife over plans to transform their new home into a multi-million-pound development. Solicitor Samuel Tempest Brooks, 43, and his company director wife Ms Stafford, also 43, had paid £850,000 for an Edwardian former waterworks. Ms Stafford told the trial: 'They began objecting to me erecting fencing and they were also verbally abusive. I was the calmest head and sought to seek solutions and had no personal issue with Ms Stafford. 'Ms Stafford was hacking away at the plants quite aggressively and was quite rude and abusive to people standing there, accusing them of bad things.

Source: Daily Mail February 02, 2026 21:25 UTC