A woman from Cornwall has told a court of relief at surviving an extraordinary ordeal, when her jilted lover went to extreme lengths to get his revenge.
Carolyn Picton was asleep in her Elddis caravan with her dog, when it was overturned by her ex-lover Alexander Brown, who drove a tractor into the side of it at 1.30am causing such bad damage it has been written off.
The pair started a casual relationship after meeting at work at the Beacon Cottage Farm Touring Park in Cornwall, but Brown began to harass Picton after she ended the six-month link, Truro Crown Court heard .
Carolyn had called the police about her ex, claiming that he had been pestering her with continuous text messages.
The following night as she lay sleeping in her caravan, Brown drove the large tractor into her caravan; luckily she escaped unharmed after managing to scramble out of a window.
Mr Brown has admitted to damaging the property and starts a six-year jail sentence today after endangering his ex’s life in his fit of rage.
He has previously been convicted for domestic violence – he also admitted scratching her Citreon car and slashing all its tyres last October.
His attack on the caravan was swiftly punished, when he was arrested 12 hours later after police found him hiding in a field.
Carolyn told the West Briton: “It was terrifying, confusing, incomprehensible – just awful. It was a miracle I had no physical injuries. I could have been killed.”
