Strim pickings!

Fiona Bruce meets a couple who may have found a masterpiece in a garden…

- NATASHA HOLT, STEVEN PERKINS

When Neil and Barbara Betts were helping their neighbours Mr and Mrs Williams clear out their garden in 1987, Neil uncovered an unusual sculpture in the undergrowth with his strimmer – and it was taken into the house and used as a doorstop.

After the Williamses passed away, Neil and Barbara inherited the sculpture, which they nicknamed ‘Henry’ after an art-historian pal of theirs remarked that it looked like the work of famous sculptor Henry Moore.