A woman so furious at her ex-boyfriend she drove off with him screaming and clinging onto the bonnet of her car.
Kirsty Smith, 30, deliberately drove into her ex-boyfriend Phillip Ashton and sped down the street before braking and sending him flying into the road.
The angry mother reached her former boyfriend’s St Helens flat and hammered on the door at around 7.40am on March 27 this year.
When her boyfriend went outside to see what was going on, she drove up to him in her red Renault car and demanded he get inside, but he refused, and went back into his house.
Smith, who had been dumped by Mr Ashton three months earlier, followed him and tried to block him from going inside.
Prosecutor Michael Whitty, at Liverpool Crown Court today, said: “She put herself in the doorway, stopping him from closing the door.
“She was demanding to talk to him and wouldn’t take no for an answer. She began to get aggressive, trying to punch and scratch at him through the door.”
After finally being locked out, Smith returned to her car and deliberately smashed it into a car belonging to Mr Ashton’s new girlfriend before driving off. Mr Ashton then went outside the check the damage, unaware that Smith was waiting for him in her car further down the street.
Mr Whitty said: “The defendant drove at him, accelerating her car. All Mr Ashton could do was face the vehicle and jump and grab onto the bonnet. As he grabbed the car, the defendant drove down the road.”
Smith, of Moss Green Lane, St Helens, pleaded guilty to common assault, dangerous driving, and causing criminal damage to Mr Ashton’s girlfriend’s car, Liverpool Echo reports.
Tom Challinor, defending, said Smith, who had no previous convictions, was “very frightened about the prospect of losing her liberty” and was willing to “engage whole-heartedly with any offers of help made by the probation service”.
Judge Ian Harris, sentencing, said: “You were involved in a relationship with Mr Ashton for some months before this disgraceful incident. Whatever complaints you may have had don’t provide you any excuse to behave in the criminal way you did. You lost your temper and felt like a wrong individual.
“The way you behaved was out of character but extremely frightening, and the potential consequences could have led to years in prison. The person to blame for your loss of good character is you.”
He sentenced Smith to a two-year community order, 25 days of rehabilitation, 12 days of mental health treatment, and a total of 150 hours of unpaid work.
She was also ordered to pay the £2,588.10 bill for the damage to Mr Ashton’s girlfriend’s car, and given a restraining order banning her from contacting both parties.
