A farmer has been fined after a neighbour's house became flooded with slurry from manure piled up on his land.
Slurry flowed from John Cockerill's farm into nearby properties and streams after heavy rain on September 6 2008.
The 45-year-old from Rosedale East, North Yorkshire, was fined £10,000 over the incident, which caused a "foul" 3-inch flood in June Crossley's kitchen and living room.
The slurry from his herd of 70 cows caused extensive damage and forced the pensioner to move out for over a month.
Cockerill pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at Scarborough Magistrates' Court to offences of causing polluting matter to enter controlled waters and keeping controlled waste on a small-holding between September 6 2008 and April 14 2009.
Sentencing Cockerill at York Crown Court, Judge James Spencer QC told him: "The waste created collected and collected until eventually there was no alternative, it had to escape somewhere and escape it did, when it rained heavily, into your neighbour's property so that she was unable to live there, such was the foul nature of the flood, for over a month."
Jim Richards, an environment officer, said an elderly Ms Crossley was "very distressed" about the damage to her home and all the neighbours were "happy and relieved" that action had been taken.
