To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video A bitter row has flared up after a businessman appears to destroy a flower bed build by volunteers near his home in a Welsh village. Footage shows the bizarre moment a wind turbine company director Mike Hodgson, 54, targeted a wildflower bed in a village in north Wales just hours after it had been planted. The turf war escalated in Gwaenysgor, North Wales, after the man and his partner allegedly used power tools and crowbars to destroy the bed of flowers near his luxury home.
It comes after an alleged ongoing planning dispute between locals and the Hodgson after he moved into the countryside village around a decade ago, villages said. Video taken by one of the residents shows the bizarre but heated flower row as Hodgson and his partner Shirin Poostchi, 55, appear to rip out bundles of flowers and toss them to the side on Tuesday. At the same time, villagers stage a quiet ‘sit-in’ protest to protect the flower bed which was planted less than 24 hours earlier in preparation for the gardening competition Britain in Bloom.
Neighbour Andy Clarke, 58, said: ‘We installed a herb planter adjacent to their house – it is not on their land but is next to it. ‘Members of the public had to sit on the bed to stop them destroying it. The police were called but no one was cautioned or arrested.
’ Clarke, a creative director at design agency, said the flowers had been plante.