An elderly couple embroiled in a five-year campaign of jealousy to hound them out of their home have been saved by a generous neighbour who coughed up £180,000 of his own savings to buy their flat.
Pensioners Geoffrey and Ruth Scott were celebrating today, Tuesday 1 January, after 89-year-old Raymond Hewitt purchased their property to end a rumpus which had torn apart a retirement haven.
The OAP's have faced backlash because a handful of the residents objected to Mr Scott's kind spirit in setting up communal holidays, fish and chip suppers, games and activities for their neighbours.
Matters came to a head before Christmas when several of Mr Scott's rivals were said to be behind a letter sent to his landlady, urging that his tenancy should not be renewed. Pressure was ramped up and Mr and Mrs Scott faced having to leave the home which had become their retirement bliss.
Geoffrey Scott (pictured above) moved into Pinewood Court in 2013
However, an act of staggering generosity has saved the Scott's tenancy from under the management firm's nose, after Mr Hewitt, bought the £180,000 flat from Geoff's previous landlady and leased it back to the Scotts in a sensational, seasonal goodwill gesture of the home's appreciation.
Mr Hewitt's purchase was completed just days before Christmas and has secured the couple's future at Pinewood Court.
Mr Scott said: 'On the morning I received the letter from FirstPort, Ray and myself spoke about my impending departure and that afternoon he sprang it on me that he would purchase the flat and become my landlord.
'Through my tears I thanked him, while questioning his actions, saying he was mad, but also accepting the offer - as if by fate we had been advised that my landlady was looking at selling the flat and advised me two days before this letter!
'It was our coup de grace! It came right out of the blue and he had been considering it for a few days. I just couldn't believe it.'
The couple also arranged another meeting with senior management at FirstPort in an attempt to iron out and build bridges following the bitter dispute but true reconciliation felt some way off for Geoff and Ruth.
Geoffrey (right) and Ruth Scott (left) have declared victory fter a kind neighbour secured their future and bought the flat in Ferndown, Bournemouth
He said: 'No-one has been prepared to do what I'm doing and say, 'you can't let these bullies carry on'. I have begun talking myself as a whistle-blower!'
Mr Scott said: 'Me and around 24 of my friends in the flats had a fish and chip supper to celebrate Ray's help. It's was a free event to thank our friends for their support from Ruth and myself. It's been a very quiet Christmas... until they read this!'
The bid to oust the Scott's from their home stemmed from 'the envious wrath' of a cluster of residents who resented the 75-year-old's attempts to create an enjoyable social life in the sedate but stale block of flats which Geoffrey jokingly nicknamed 'God's waiting room,' shortly after moving into Pinewood Court in Bournemouth, Dorset in October 2013.
Mr Scott said: 'It all began with a coach trip to Hampshire. It was such a success we went on to organise a mystery tour and we took about 20 of the neighbours on a holiday to Eastbourne. We have also run holidays to the Isle of Wight and to Torquay.
'After six months we organised more with the permission of Molly, who was the previous flats' manager. I have never asked for money for doing this - funds were raised through raffles and the like. Then suddenly, this group of six people took umbrage with me doing this.
'It was apparent that our fellow elderly residents were staying in their flats and not doing anything to pass the time, so we introduced card games and cake afternoons and bingo and even a fish and chip evening.
Geoffrey Scott (pictured above) had never imagined they would face a five-year campaign of jealousy to hound them out of their home
'All of a sudden people were energised and taking part - and really loving life a lot more. I was so pleased.'
However, the retirement resort's new lease of life quickly turned sour for the Scotts when the quiet crusade of the clique of embittered residents received 'legitimacy' from the new manager, Ms. Julie Whitney (corr), on her arrival six months ago.
Mr Scott, a retired aircraft structure designer, said: 'Originally Julie, the new manager, started saying what a marvellous place she wanted to turn it into with holidays and coach trips. However, she appeared upset when she realised all of her ideas had already been introduced - by me.
Geoffrey Scott (pictured above) had tried to offer other residents more of a vibrant social life when he first moved to the residency
'We think she wanted to turn it into a care home! Pinewood Court is actually 42 flats with about 50 people living healthy, independent lives with ages ranging of 65 to 98 years. The main instigator against my good deeds was a gentleman who began shouting at me down the hall, saying: 'Here he comes, here comes, the governor!'
'Molly, now she is not working here, can say the things she heard around the home. She told me that this man said to her: 'I want to stab him in the back' - I didn't hear about this until four months ago.
For Mr Scott, there was only one obvious reason why the group began their crusade against him simply for offering Pinewood Court a vibrant social life.
He said: 'It was jealousy perhaps that they hadn't done it themselves, or perhaps they were jealous that someone came in and introduced all this stuff. But on the very first fish and chip evening I organised all these moaners came along and enjoyed it!
'But the five or six people started taking umbrage with others having fun. This went on until Molly retired about six months ago and the new manager and this group quickly became friends and turned her against me.
One of the gentlemen in clique, I met in a lift. I held my hand out, and said let's call this a day, I don't like this atmosphere - and he totally snubbed me and walked away.'
'These incidents escalated to the point where the building's management firm, FirstPort, contacted my landlady insisting she terminates our tenancy. Is this FirstPort's way of getting rid of a whistle-blower?
'Friends and family have told me to go to the police. I have seen a solicitor, which cost me £495 - who said you can either live with it or we can start writing letters - £300 a time - to management - to which they do not have to reply.'
Following Mr Hewitt's purchase of the property Mr Scott revealed that FirstPort does not yet know about the acquisition.
'But management does not know. One of the clique said: 'It won't be long now - you will soon be gone'.'
MailOnline contacted FirstPort for comment.
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