Yet again I hear echoes of the way in which I amt treated by the police in the evidence being given to the Post Office inquiry today.

Alan Bates was impressive today and drew attention to the way in which the Post Office attacked without scruple and ignored all the rules when it suited them but when appearing to help in fact kept putting obstacles in the way. 

I was arrested on scant evidence which had clearly not been previously investigated and puzzled even the desk sergeant as to why an arrest had taken place. On the other hand the officer who is meant to be helping me keeps raising new problems, the latest being whether or not we own the fence that is being damaged by our the aggressor. 

Not only was this dealt with three years ago and then three times since then the police have told the guy to take down things that he was attaching to our fence without permission, but it is also blindingly obvious merely by looking at it - the fence posts are on our side! And that is before we provided, again, evidence that we had paid for it.

I wouldn't mind so much my evidence being tested in this way if the same was true of my aggressor. it is the complete imbalance of treatment that time and time again hurts so much.

This is what I have previously put on the record with the police, when this ridiculous idea was first suggested...

1) I paid for the current fence - I have the invoice

2) It is a matter of standard land law that in the absence of evidence to the contrary the landowner has responsibility for the fence on the left hand side looking from the road.

3) The line of the fence itself is the boundary between the properties and the fence posts are always on the side of the person building the fence and in this case on my land, see land registry provided.

4) The other guy knows all this which is why he did not query it when we put the trellis on top of the fence to try and raise it once he started climbing over it nor has he queried any of the other fence furniture that we have put on it let alone the electric fence.

5) Finally, and most conclusively, 2 years ago there was a problem when he deliberately kicked a ball over the fence, said loudly for the camera that he couldn't climb over it because he knew it wasn't his, and then repeated that to the officer who attended.