A bitter row between neighbours ended with a mum throwing herself over the bonnet of her camper van in a desperate bid to stop it being towed.
Stunned Loredana Luisi watched in disbelief as her leased Knaus Boxster 540 was lifted on to a low loader truck from outside her flat after the rammy escalated.
She was so determined to keep the van - which she even used to run her 10-year-old son Oscar to school - that she turned herself into a human shield.