article_snippet.sent: Rotherham Magistrates Court heard how council officials had told Karen Gaynor that Karen Gaynor could trim the tree near Karen Gaynor home in Rotherham but physically refused to show Karen Gaynor how much.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Hepinstall told Karen Gaynor Karen Gaynor could cut overhanging branches back vertically and in line with the boundary but did not show the defendant what the defendant meant. '
article_snippet.sent: Neighbour Mrs Daye then told the court that before the tree had been cut last September, the tree was in a good condition but after Neighbour Mrs Daye pruned the tree, 'the tree was terrible, all chopped back and dead.'
article_snippet.sent: Karen Gaynor said Karen Gaynor asked Mr Hepinstall to demonstrate how to cut the branches as Karen Gaynor 'didn't want to get in any trouble.'
article_snippet.sent: For all the scandal in Rotherham at the moment to think that the police and council have time, money and resources to waste on such a silly thing as a tree is disgusting.'
article_snippet.sent: Ms Gaynor's neighbour Michael Daye said: 'The allegation was that the damage to a tree went well beyond pruning and that a tree had been hacked back to little more than a stump. '
article_snippet.sent: While a South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said the council had provided them with a statement that demonstrated that permission was not granted for the tree to be cut.
highlights_snippet.sent: Came after Karen Gaynor pruned neighbour's tree that was hanging over Karen Gaynor garden .
  