Pair killed neighbour after she burst football

A father and daughter have been jailed for a total of 14 years for killing their neighbour – after she burst a child’s football.

Natalie Bollen, 28, and her father William Jelly, 48, punched Kelly Machin and pushed her on to a coffee table, causing internal bleeding.

Miss Machin, 34, had burst a ball, which belonged to one of Bollen’s children, after becoming fed up with it being kicked over her fence. Bollen, of Leicester Forest East, and Jelly, of Thorpe Astley, Leicester, were jailed for seven years each yesterday after they were convicted of manslaughter at Leicester Crown Court yesterday.