McCombie Lies

With McCombie, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish deliberate lies from ignorance and stupidity, but the following extracts from letters signed by McCombie illustrate at least one of the three. Words in square brackets are mine, the rest McCombie's.

7th November 2001 [to Eastbourne County Court]

He has fallen out with every one of his neighbours over trivial matters. I understand that a neighbour currently has a claim against Mr. Madden regarding a boundary dispute. Recently, Mr. Madden attempted to have the postman fired from his job over a very petty matter. [Royal Mail say otherwise.]

The matter of a Sky TV installation engineer placing a ladder on Mr. Madden's property was beyond my control as I was not present at that time. [Mrs McCombie was.]

The treatment [painting red] has been to the long-term benefit of the fences. [Some of the laths in the panels have subsequently split.]

The containers [fixed to my fence posts] have been removed as the plants in them died. I suspect that they were poisoned.

I was not present at the time of installation but I understand that Mr. Madden 'supervised' the works. He had every opportunity to object to the placement of the device but he ensured that he voiced his opinion only after the event.

13th June 2003 [to me]

The judge asked you to terminate the action but, you declined despite my life threatening medical condition.

Not only have you had spurious County Court summonses issued for trivial matters against your neighbours but, you have been summoned to court by others as a result of your own misbehaviour. This is compounded by the fact that injunctions have been issued against you.

Also, I have been informed that you have made slanderous allegations against my wife and I and, my friends Mr. and Mrs Mabry by telling other neighbours that we are 'The Neighbours from Hell'. It doesn't take rocket science to work out who the 'villain of the peace' [sic] actually is.

I will not tolerate your writing of libellous allegations about my friends. I will not tolerate your slanderous allegations. I will not have you accuse me of attaching pieces of wood or anything else to your property. I will not be told by you to waterproof or do anything else to my property. In this respect, I suggest that you carefully inspect your deeds as it would appear that you do not understand them.

You must cease to make slanderous allegations against my wife and I and, indeed any of my friends immediately.

You are only too willing to take people to court over minor boundary disputes and trivial matters whilst you are guilty of attempting to take land from the owner of the property backing onto your rear garden. Hypocrisy seems to be a big problem to you and your manners and communication skills quite simply do not exist.

6th July 2003 [to me]

Your inclusion to the Court of a digital image of a container of 'Thomson's Water Seal' is not normal behaviour. You should think about this, I find it quite worrying.

I have a copy of the nonsensical publication that you submitted to the Court last Friday. Apart from your ramblings over various dimensions of the garage, you require me to remove security lighting from the garage wall and, you make mention of security lighting attached to my bungalow wall. You may wish to know that I had this lighting installed at some considerable expense due to your questionable nocturnal excursions. If you behaved like a normal person the lighting would not be required.

9th October 2003 [to Eastbourne County Court]

The claimant opened his front door and, slammed it closed when I was leaving for Court that afternoon. [I closed the door quietly except for the squeak of the hinges after hearing Mrs McCombie loudly remark, "You'd think he'd bloody oil it."]

the only reason he did not attend court was by his own choice. [He received no notification that a hearing was taking place.]

He has entered our property without consent and, damaged certain of the plants in our garden with a long piece of timber. [He broke one stem of one plant because it had entered the roof space of his garage and was widening a gap between the ventilation strip and the wood to which it was fixed. He has a photograph of it, and sent a copy to the Court on the day the action was taken.]

6th March 2004 [to me]

[I wrote to Mrs McCombie revoking permission for the McCombies to access their garage from my property, and correcting a misconception that Mrs McCombie had voiced in court. The letter and envelope were returned to me with "RUBBISH" written across the letter and the envelope addressed to "MAD MADDEN".]

6th May 2004 [to me]

I assume that you wish to act out your fantasy to apply waterproofing solution to the brickwork.

I am prepared to allow you access to carry out these unnecessary works once every 4-5 years as mentioned in Eastbourne County Court by His Honour Judge Coultart.

The wall [of my garage] is constructed of engineering bricks which are impervious to all weather conditions. [The wall is not constructed of engineering bricks. Engineering bricks can absorb water, Class A up to 4.5%, Class B up to 7.0%.]

Even if water penetrated the outer brickwork, it would not continue through the cavity to the inner breeze blocks. [In October 1998, as I told the Court, the inner wall of the garage was running with water after a storm. I sent the Court a copy of a letter that I had written to the builders when I discovered the problem.]

Due to your unpredictable behaviour, I will supervise all works that you carry out. Due to my tenuous health condition, I may have my agent Mr. Clive Mabry (who you assaulted on 23rd March 2002) attend to this matter on my behalf.

It is clearly apparent that you have failed to understand the thoughts and findings of His Honour Judge Coultart with regard to the ownership of the wall you wish to tamper with.

You are obviously ignorant of the fact that it is normal behaviour to encourage friendship between neighbours rather than constantly cause trouble and irritate them the way you do.

Last December, not only did you interfere with the lights that I attached to my fence but, you also pruned one of my plants. Due to your ignorance on matters horticultural, pruning this plant in December caused the plant to die. [On 24/4/03 I took a photo of my lawn adjacent to the McCombies fence as the grass had died. The ribes plant which subsequently died was adjacent to the centre of this area. I took a photo of the dying shrub dated 11/9/2003. I pruned the shrub later that year after Mabry had attached coloured lights to it so that they overhung my property as far as possible.]