Mary Lanigan, a council leader who earns £26,000-a-year in allowances, was filmed ordering workmen to reach through a metal fence to pull up Lisa Miller's trees outside her Cleveland home.
Engineer Shaun Miller was punched and kicked by 74-year-old Richard Lanigan in the quiet village of Easington, North Yorkshire, on August 15 last year, a court heard.
The wife of a man who was beaten up by his OAP neighbour in front of his six-year-old daughter has claimed how the feud began when she asked him to stop coming to her house to see her.