Spinster jailed for spade attack on neighbour

A 72-YEAR-OLD spinster who broke a neighbour’s arm with a spade in a row over a fence was yesterday jailed for 24 weeks.

Terminally ill June Iddon was led away from the dock by two burly security guards and down to the cells still shouting “I’m innocent” as she was jailed at Preston Crown Court.

Iddon had been convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on her neighbour, Jeffrey Grundy, 62, after hitting him with a spade in November last year. The neighbours, of Hesketh Lane, Tarleton, Lancashire, had had a long-running dispute over a strip of land separating the two properties.