Man who cut brake pipes on ex’s car jailed

AMAN has been jailed for four years after cutting the brake pipes of his former partner’s car.

Alex Green only realised something was wrong when she put her foot on the brake pedal of her Ford Fiesta – and nothing happened. She narrowly avoided a collision and emerged from the car shaken but unhurt.

Warwick Crown Court was told that Mark Everett realised the gravity of what he had done.

He had confessed by text to one of Alex’s friends, in a belated attempt to stop her driving off.

In the message, he said: “I’ve cut her brake pipes. Tell her to go and check if she wants.”

Everett, of Canley, Coventry, admitted causing damage being reckless as whether lives were endangered and was jailed for four years and four months.

The court heard how the 28-year-old had also repeatedly breached a court order to keep away from Alex.

And that earned him a concurrent 12-month sentence.

Prosecutor Ekwall Tiwana said that in April 2017 a restraining order was imposed by Coventry magistrates, banning Everett from contacting Alex or going to various addresses.

But on October 18, under previously agreed contact arrangements, she went to hand over the children at his parents’ home, only for him to turn up.

Later that month, he grabbed her as she emerged from her parents’ home and pushed her.

He also rang her a number of times in November.

And in January, Everett cranked up his campaign, grabbing his ex by the throat and sabotaging her car as it was parked at a friend’s house.

Recorder Martin Butterworth told Everett : “I have to sentence you for various offences relating to a relationship you’d had with Alex Green.

“Your previous convictions amount to a course of conduct which is very worrying, and you were sentenced to a restraining order on April 13.

“You have continued to breach this order and, most seriously, you have damaged the brake pipes of her car, which caused a great deal of danger to her. The pre-sentence report demonstrates a lack of remorse.”