‘This isn’t 1930s Germany’ architect tells family in row over a boundary wall

V AN ARCHITECT called her neighbours Nazis and accused them of building a concentration camp in a furious row over a boundary wall.

Karin Reenie Elliott, based in Norwich, claimed that the neighbours were building a carport without permission and knocking down a wall that she argued was on her land.

She admitted to sending the nextdoor couple 23 abusive messages in 2018, including one that said: “You can’t just take someone else’s land or other property because you rather like the look of it. It’s plain theft, and still illegal in England. We are not in 1930s Germany, we are not Jewish, we don’t wear yellow stars, and you won’t crush us.”

Ms Elliott was recently found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct over these and other messages by a disciplinary panel of the Architects Registration Board and was given 28 days to pay a £2,000 fine. Another text sent by Ms Elliott said there were “no concentration camps in this fair country yet” and suggested her neighbours were “planning to build one”.

Ms Elliott was reported to the police over the material. A non-conviction restraining order was later imposed and criminal proceedings were dropped.

Ms Elliott also sent a dozen similar messages to another neighbouring family, including one that said there “wouldn’t be enough comfort food in Norfolk to make up for the emotional trauma caused to any woman that had to s**g your Nazi husband”.

In a statement, Ms Elliott said she had not contacted her neighbours in over three years and would not send such messages again.