Judge: Neighbours need to sort out difficulties

A 68-year-old man who was upset about the noise of ball- playing outside his house denied folding back a tea-towel to reveal two steak knives and saying to his neighbour: “Let’s sort this out for once and for all.”

The man was also accused of saying: “Let’s go to a field somewhere and one of us won’t come back.”

Judge John King, who dismissed the case and said the neighbours need to sort out their difficulties, stated at the end of the case: “I find the whole thing quite bizarre.”