END THIS RUCKUS
Judge’s warning to warring rugby ace Danielli and ex-wife as she is fined £500 for attacking his Jaguar with a brolly
A FED-UP judge has told former Scotland rugby star Simon Danielli and his estranged wife he’ll hit them with stiffer penalties if they bother his court with their feud again. The warning came after Mark Hamill fined Olivia Danielli £500 for damaging his car in a fit of rage. Olivia, 29, smashed the wing mirror of her ex-partner’s Jaguar with an umbrella handle and threw it at the bonnet after a row at his home about the babysitting of their children in August 2015. A non-molestation order had been in place between the warring pair for six months before Olivia erupted over their three young children allegedly being minded by women she did not know. She took her frustration out on the car, which she gave her husband £34,000 to buy before their split. She said: “I was just really upset and annoyed at Simon. The thought he had my car in his driveway and was using that to drive around other girls with my kids. I was just really hurt and upset by the situation.”
Newtownards Magistrates’ Court in Northern Ireland was played a video Simon recorded on his phone of his wife damaging the car.
In the clip, Olivia could be seen repeatedly striking the wing mirror, then picking part of it up and throwing it at the bonnet of the car.
As well as fining Olivia, district judge Hamill also ordered the former model to pay the £1800 cost of repairing the damage. He said: “She attacked the car to get back at him quite clearly and this, I am afraid, is nonsense on stilts.”
Simon, 37, and Olivia were married in 2009 and separated in September 2014. They have three children aged five, four and two and live a short distance from each other in Holywood, County Down.
Olivia was charged with criminal damage and fought the case in court because she believed it was her car, her lawyer said.
The Jaguar XF had been bought after she borrowed the money but was insured in her former partner’s name for several months.