A ROAMING rabbit is at the centre of an unholy row between neighbours.

Lay minister Alison Alp admits she would have "no qualms" about running her car over Bumper because he eats her cauliflowers and forces motorists to swerve to miss him.

But the eight-year-old bunny's owners have dubbed Alison a sinner and say Bumper should be free to wander.

Sara Caddy, 25, whose son Martin, eight, visits the animal at grandmother Sandra Murphy's home in Whalley Old Road, Blackburn, said: "Bumper lives in a pen in the garden but jumps out and comes into the house.

"He enters other gardens but does no harm.

"Alison bundled him into my mother's arms and said she would run him over if she saw him on her path again.

"She also said he should be taken to the vets and destroyed if we cannot control him.

"I don't think that was a very holy thing to say!" But Alison, who serves at the St Michael and Holy Trinity and St Stephen's churches, Little Harwood, is unrepentant and believes Bumper could cause a serious road accident.

She added: "The rabbit is running amok.

"I took it back after swerving up my path and narrowly escaping an accident in my car.

"I said 'Please will you keep your rabbit in'.

"It has been eating my cauliflowers and attacking plants in all the gardens.

"I hate the thought of an animal being caged but it should be controlled before it causes a serious road accident and kills itself or even a child.

"If it got in my way again I wouldn't worry about running it over."

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