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Mr Combs was led into a wood-panelled courtroom on Friday in New York's southern district federal court wearing a greenish-tan prison jumpsuit, with overgrown grey hair and a beard.

"Remove potential nesting sites by keeping yards and gardens clean and tidy, and cut back overgrown areas," they added.

In a few frantic moments, she was desperately fighting for what she believed was her life as he dragged her towards a more secluded overgrown area.

“There were these communities that backed up to the river, where really all they had was blight and chain-link fences and overgrown weeds,” she said.

She also points to perimeter hedges left overgrown, while empty plots were left unmaintained.