{"id":982,"date":"2008-10-12T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/roundup-for-the-ol-bitty\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T22:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T05:15:49","slug":"roundup-for-the-ol-bitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/12\/roundup-for-the-ol-bitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup For The Ol&#8217; Bitty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/oct\/06\/ukcrime1\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 450px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" id=\"main-article-info\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: 24px; line-height: 30px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Sacked gardener poisoned plants after feud with retired judge&#8217;s wife, court told<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; width: 460px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 1.333em; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: #666666; background-position: 0% 100%; border-style: none\" id=\"stand-first\">Edward Hancock denies spraying weedkiller on the former high court judge Sir Richard Tucker&#8217;s garden<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 12px; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 34px; border-color: #d61d00\" class=\"article-attributes\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/angelabalakrishnan\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Angela Balakrishnan}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Angela Balakrishnan}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Angela Balakrishnan<\/a>\u00a0and agencies<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" id=\"article-wrapper\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/10\/06\/tuckers4.jpg\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" alt=\"Sir Richard Tucker and his wife, Lady Jacqueline, arriving at Gloucester magistrates court\" height=\"276\" width=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 13px; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"caption\">Sir Richard Tucker and his wife, Lady Jacqueline, arriving at Gloucester magistrates court this morning. Photograph: Barry Batchelor\/PA<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">An angry gardener poisoned a retired high court judge&#8217;s plants after being sacked due to a &#8220;clash of egos&#8221; with the judge&#8217;s wife, a court heard today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">Edward Hancock, 45, is accused of spraying weedkiller on Sir Richard Tucker&#8217;s garden in Stanton, Worcestershire, after a 20-year feud with Lady Jacqueline, a garden designer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">Their relationship reached breaking point in April and he was fired via a note left on his van after failing to turn up for work on the \u00a31.5m property, Gloucester magistrates court heard. A month later, Tucker, 77, and his third wife returned from a holiday to find their lawn had turned orange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">The gardener, of Northway, Tewkesbury, denies a charge of causing damage worth \u00a3500 to flower borders and a grass verge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">Giving evidence, Tucker, who presided over high-profile cases such as the Polly Peck fraud trial, said Hancock was a &#8220;good country gardener&#8221; but was volatile. He accepted there had been a clash of egos between the gardener and Lady Tucker, and said: &#8220;There have been times when my wife had said &#8216;it&#8217;s either him or me&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">The retired judge said of Hancock: &#8220;I got on with him perfectly well but he had to be held with velvet gloves because he was very temperamental and sometimes moody. He worked one day a week, always on Wednesdays. In the latter years he became very moody and his attitude to my wife became very aggressive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">&#8220;They found it difficult to communicate with each other. A lot of the time she was in London and they didn&#8217;t meet, but on April 16 there came a time when they had words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2008\/oct\/06\/ukcrime1\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK \u00a0Sacked gardener poisoned plants after feud with retired judge&#8217;s wife, court told Edward Hancock denies spraying weedkiller on the former high court judge Sir Richard Tucker&#8217;s garden Angela Balakrishnan\u00a0and agencies guardian.co.uk \u00a0 Sir Richard Tucker and his wife, Lady Jacqueline, arriving at Gloucester magistrates court this morning. 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