Businessman fined for attack on parish council chair in birds’ nests dispute
A parish council chair feared his life was “in peril” when he was attacked by an “out of control” businessman during a dispute about birds’ nests in a quiet village, a court has heard.
Magistrates were shown mobile phone footage of an incident in the North Yorkshire village of Church Fenton in which local resident Andrew Mason, 63, can be seen in front of a tree-cutting cherry-picker as Chris Makin, 65, tries to drag him by his clothes and hair.
