Patrick Trench

Patrick Trench ( Angus Deayton) – Patrick and his wife Pippa live next door to Victor, and often catches Victor engrossed in seemingly preposterous situations, all of which in context seemed perfectly acceptable. The couple's relationship with their neighbours begins badly after Victor mistakenly believes Patrick and Pippa are distant relations rather than the next-door neighbours who had been leaving for a lengthy holiday the day that Victor and Margaret moved in. This and later incidents cause Patrick to suspect that Victor is quite insane, possibly bordering on malicious, and he often responds to Victor in similarly vindictive ways as a means of "getting even", for example by complaining via post-it notes.

He is quite obsessed with Victor and sees everything he does like its a conflict. At first, the feeling was mutual, but Victor tried to become friendly and make amends with Patrick shortly before and after Patrick and Pippa left the street, but it never worked out although their wives remained friends (keeping Victor as a constant presence in Patrick's life).

As time passes, Patrick becomes more cynical and outspoken with his personality slowly morphing until it becomes similar to that of Victor's, to the point he also starts to suffer unlikely consequences for his actions (although Patrick would never care to mention this similarity).

Trivia
In the episode, The Wisdom of the Witch, it is revealed that Patrick is deathly afraid of spiders.