We're being made homeless for Christmas after spending £500,000 trying to get our neighbour to move his BINS

A COUPLE are losing their dream retirement home after racking up a £500,000 legal bill with a farmer over where he put his bins.

Geoff Carter, 76, and his wife Corinne, 69, who is battling cancer, say they are effectively bankrupt and facing homelessness after losing their battle with neighbor Trevor Goldsworthy.

Geoff Carter, pictured, and his wife are selling their £450.00 house to pay legal bills Credit: Neil Hope

All the couple want is for the farmer to move to where he leaves his rubbish for collection Credit: Neil Hope

As part of the row, the neighbour’s son was seen on CCTV using a telehandler to lift and move Mr Carter’s car

The couple put their £450,000 dream home on the market to cover their legal bills.

He said: “It completely destroyed us, we had nothing left. We lost half a million pounds.

“All we wanted was a quiet life and a nice view, but we lost this house, it’s gone, it’s already on the market.

“I get 80, my wife gets 70, we’ve had the house since 1973 and now we’re totally screwed. We cannot start working again, we are too old now. We have nothing but state pensions.”

Mr Goldsworthy confirmed to The Sun that the case was over and the courts had ruled in his favour, but declined to comment on the outcome.

The Carters traded their home in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, for a cottage in rural west Cornwall in 2018 after falling in love with the area while on holiday.

But a few weeks after buying the property, they fell out with farmer Mr Goldsworthy over where he left the rubbish for the weekly rubbish collection.

The Carters claimed the trash – left across the street from their house – was blocking their driveway and attracting flies.

The row escalated to the point where the neighbors ended up in court – where Mr Goldsworthy was proved right.

As part of the row between the neighbours, Mr Goldsworthy’s son Simon was seen on CCTV using a telehandler to lift and move Mr Carter’s Skoda Fabia outside his house.

Carter sought compensation through the court for the alleged damage to the car, but this was also denied.

An appeal at Bristol Crown Court failed, leaving the Carters responsible for all legal costs for both parties, after which Mr Goldsworthy arranged for the rubbish to be collected elsewhere.

Mr Carter said: “If we hadn’t invested so much in this house we would have sold it a long time ago and moved on, but we just got caught up in it and as the case went on it became harder to pull out so we were responsible for all our costs anyway .”