article_snippet.sent: There remains one disputed issue of fact and that's the state of the tree before the tree was pruned.'
article_snippet.sent: However, Helen Shepherd, mitigating, said the conifer had already been dying in the middle which had created a gap but the top of the tree was healthy.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Quinn, a senior district prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service, Yorkshire and Humberside, said the incident followed an acrimonious eight-year long neighbour dispute.
article_snippet.sent: A complaint was made about the hedge that she pruned as part of a long-running boundary dispute .
article_snippet.sent: The conifer hedge in our case formed the border between the gardens of Karen Gaynor and Karen Gaynor next door neighbours.
article_snippet.sent: At dispute was whether Karen Gaynor had cut back too much of The conifer hedge in this case.
article_snippet.sent: This may have been because prosecutors considered the damage caused to The conifer hedge in this case was intentional and related to a neighbour dispute.
article_snippet.sent: Rotherham Council's housing and estate services manager Paul Walsh said the matter of The conifer hedge in this case would normally have been discussed between neighbours but dispute made this impossible.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Quinn, a senior district prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service, Yorkshire and Humberside, said the incident over The conifer hedge in this case, pictured, followed an acrimonious eight-year long neighbour dispute .
article_snippet.sent: The hedge in between Karen Gaynor and Mrs Day's homes. 