Watch: Escaped water buffalo herd wreck Essex couple's garden

A mates person won compensation aft a herd of h2o buffaloes escaped from a workplace and wrecked their caller swimming pool.

CCTV captured the infinitesimal the animals fells done the excavation screen and into the water, causing £25,000 of damage.

The husbandman managed to rescue them unharmed aft the incidental astatine the location successful Wivenhoe, adjacent Colchester, Essex successful July.

An NFU Mutual spokesperson confirmed the assertion had been "settled and paid".