Neighbour terrorises son of cricket ace Colin Cowdrey ruining sale of his £3million home

Vanessa Gibson scuppered Jeremy Cowdrey's chances of selling his sprawling ten-acre country house in Goudhurst, Kent, with her "unreasonable and oppressive" behaviour

A nightmare neighbour waged a campaign of harassment and "blackmail" against a son of England cricket legend Colin Cowdrey.

Vanessa Gibson, 55, ruined the sale of Jeremy Cowdrey's sprawling ten-acre country house in Goudhurst, Kent, worth £3.85million with "lies" amid a period of "unreasonable and oppressive" behaviour.

The row led to a showdown in Central London County Court where a judge found for 65-year-old Mr Cowdrey and, last week, the parties were back in court again where Mrs Gibson was ordered to pick up Mr Cowdrey's lawyers' bills for the row — with £360,000 up front — on top of the £159,000 she still owes