Anna Friel dad in email threat to her neighbour
SHE is 40 years old with a successful acting career. But it seems Anna Friel still relies on her father to fight some battles for her.
Her former next-door neighbour Henry Hoppe, 66, has revealed he was threatened by Desmond Friel over a dispute about his daughter’s extension to her £1million townhouse in Windsor.
Mr Friel, 65, a former French teacher who lives in Rochdale with his wife Julie, wrote to the frail pensioner accusing him of causing his daughter ‘grief’ and warning him: ‘I will now be watching every step.’
Mr Hoppe, a retired civil servant, took legal action against Miss Friel after ‘two years of misery’ arising from the extension to her Grade II-listed Georgian home. But he was taken aback by the irate email from Mr Friel, who wrote: ‘Should you wish to bully someone, try me; I think you will find that I am somewhat harder to deal with than a young lady. I will now be watching every step. Each time you put a foot wrong, I will serve notice and take you to court.’ Mr Hoppe, who has now moved having sold the property which he had lived in his whole life, said: ‘At times I have felt under threat and for somebody of my age with health problems, it’s not a good thing.’
Miss Friel said last night: ‘My father stood up for me as any father would for their child.’ She accused Mr Hoppe of trying to persuade her to make renovations to his house that she had no obligation to undertake.