A pig farmer embroiled in a four-year feud with his multimillionaire neighbours has told of how he sold his greenbelt land to a group of travellers for more than £200,000.
After years of legal back-and-forth with the council and neighbouring properties, Matthew Silvester, 39, and his 34-year-old wife Helen Freeman arranged for the sale of Hares Farm in the quiet village of South Warnborough, Hampshire, this summer.
Then, when council offices were closed over the August Bank Holiday weekend, a group of balaclava-clad travellers swooped in to set up an illegal encampment on the beauty spot.
In what’s been labelled an audacious ‘land grab’,
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