Rather confusing.
Have the neighbours simply cut back your trees to your boundary or have they
felled or lopped trees within your curtilage.
Even if they did, or at any rate had to enter on your land to lop branches
over hanging their own land, did they have permission from your tenants, who
were renting it from you at the time.
Did they take away the cuttings or were they offered to you or your tenants?
Are you even sure the neighbours did it?
I can't tell what your tenants were like, but it seems odd that three
neighbours would operate in concert if you were a good neighbour. It seems
pretty odd that you are trying to get them arrested by the police.
Typically you can expect the sort of response Rome wreaked on Carthage*
after the final Punic War.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carthage_%28c.149_BC%29
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> Cutting a long story short, rented out my house which had a very
> mature big garden.
>
> Tenants from hell moved in and within four month I managed to evict
> them.
>
> Whilst they were there they told the neighbours on all sides that I
> was being evicted and that they had to move out in a hurry because of
> this supposed eviction.
>
> The day after tenants moved I travel to house, only to find three
> neighbours had employed the services of a tree surgeon that chopped
> and looped much of the garden. Presumably as they thought that I would
> not be returning and to take advantage of the new owners.
>
> The police are involved as I have made a statement and want to press
> charges for criminal damage. The neighbours are to be arrested and
> interviewed under caution next week.
>
> What civil action can I take in addition to:
>
> (1) Trespass
> (2) Interference with goods
>
> And what damages am I likely to get?
>
> Thanks
> within 4 months had them evicted.
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