Daily Mail
May 1, 2015
A property developer who falsely accused his neighbour’s son-in-law of a racist assault in a row over a new driveway smirked yesterday as he walked free from court.
Sanjay Chaddah concocted a ’tissue of lies’, claiming Dean Paton had kicked him and called him a ‘P**i’ following the 18-month boundary dispute in a genteel village in the Wirral.
But the move backfired when police discovered that the altercation had been caught on CCTV and cleared Mr Paton of any wrongdoing.
Yesterday Chaddah, 43, who claimed he was suffering from post-traumatic stress, punched the air with delight as he strolled free from court after being given a six-month suspended sentence for common assault and perjury.
Liverpool Crown Court heard he had been embroiled in an ongoing spat with neighbours Steve and Tricia Boden after he dug up part of the block paving on their drive to make way for an ornate wall and railings around his home in Raby Mere.
Despite their objections, he carried on transforming his modest £300,000 four-bedroom detached home into what residents in the upmarket village describe as a ‘Bollywood palace’. Things came to a head in July when Chaddah and his wife Deepa spotted their neighbours’ son-in-law Mr Paton moving a fence panel on the day their new driveway was being laid.
Chaddah was so incensed he charged at Mr Paton, 31, and knocked him over.
Police were called and Chaddah falsely accused the archaeologist of racially aggravated assault, only to be caught out by frame-by-frame footage from his neighbours’ CCTV cameras.