Put a letter through everyone's door on my street who has a house facing the back (we live in a square, with the houses wrapped around it in a "U" shape, the middle run having a back in the next street where the driveway is) to warn them there's a vandal about and to be vigilant when parking their car back there. Put a special version through the "special" neighbour's door (the one I suspect did it) which read the same, but added in a paragraph that stated after reviewing the footage of my dashcams, the incident had been recorded and the footage will be forwarded to the Police.
It seemed a better story to make him sweat a bit if it was him, waiting for a call from the Bobbies. If I had dashcams, he'd have to scrutinise the car to see them.
Expensive incident - £300 for the repair to pay and £300 to knock a bit of wall down and tidy up/repoint the remaining column to widen the drive entry enough to make it viable to use. Seems a lot for the job, but half the money is tied up getting rid of the rubble and gates.
