Telford brothers threatened neighbour with machete, jury told
A long-running feud between neighbours over a parking space in a normally quiet street in Telford came to a head with a man being threatened by two brothers, one brandishing a machete and the other an iron bar, a court this afternoon heard.
David Brown told Shrewsbury Crown Court bad blood had been simmering for a while between his family and the Brooks family in Princess Anne Gardens, Dawley.
The court heard it centred around one of the five communal car parking spaces, which Christopher and Dennis Brooks said their parents had been using for years.
But when neighbour Lorraine Brown parked in the space on June 10 this year, a row broke out between her and Dennis Brooks and later on between him and her husband Mr Brown.
Mr Brown, said: "He said that he (Dennis) had got a problem with us parking there, that the slot belonged to his mom and dad and that they had been parking there for 13 years. We were both very angry and speaking loudly."
Mr Brown told the jury about 45 minutes after the argument he was confronted by the brothers. He said Christopher was 'waving' a machete and threatened to 'cut him up', while Dennis was holding the iron bar.
Christopher Brooks, 26, of Princess Anne Gardens, and Dennis Brooks, 21, now of Kenley Road, Shrewsbury, deny possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
