He beeped the horn repeatedly earlier than he drove the single-decker coach into the bed room window
Ian Anderson (Picture: Northumbria Police/PA)
A jilted lover who rammed an 18-tonne coach into his ex-partner’s dwelling has been informed by a choose it was a “ludicrous, irresponsible, silly and infantile” factor to do. Ian Anderson, 33, beeped the horn repeatedly earlier than he drove the single-decker coach into the bed room window of the tackle in Ashington, Northumberland, on January 21 final yr, whereas his ex-boyfriend was inside.
Newcastle Crown Courtroom heard that the impression precipitated £23,834 of injury to the bottom ground flat and £22,000 of injury to the car, which belonged to Liberty Coaches, the place Anderson labored as a yard man. Anderson, of Boldon, South Tyneside, beforehand admitted aggravated car taking, inflicting prison injury to the property and harmful driving. Recorder Tony Hedworth KC handed him a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for 2 years, in addition to a two-year driving ban, and ordered him to pay £1,000 compensation to the housing firm and the coach agency to cowl their insurance coverage excesses.
Ian Anderson leaves earlier Magistrates’ Courtroom listening to (Picture: Newcastle Chronicle)
The courtroom heard that Anderson and his companion of seven years had break up up simply the month earlier than his assault.
Anderson took a coach from his employer’s yard in Cramlington and drove to his ex’s, the place he repeatedly beeped the horn exterior.
His former lover was in his bed room on the time and seen the white coach seconds earlier than it was pushed on the constructing.
It was smashed right into a wall, inflicting 4 home windows to smash, a radiator to return off the wall and structural injury.
Anderson then shouted “Get exterior” to his ex, who remained contained in the property, the courtroom heard.
Anderson then fled the scene however was arrested later and charged. He admitted the offences on the earliest alternative, the courtroom heard.
“It was purely to embarrass him.”
injury brought on by Ian Anderson (Picture: Northumbria Police/PA)
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