PEER GETS MESSAGE!

Lover in pig’s blood attack

AN EX-Olympic showjumper used pig’s blood to daub lewd messages inside a Tory peer’s house, a court heard.

Lizzie Purbrick, 63, admitted using a key to enter the home of David Prior, son of 1980s Tory Cabinet minister Jim Prior.

It was a “cathartic” response to seeing her partner of several years “in the arms of another woman”.

Purbrick used a garden sprayer and several litres of pig’s blood to cover the walls with phrases such as “whore”, “lady slut” and “big dick lord” on May 9.

She also drew a penis on the floor and left a cheque for £1,000 before discarding the remainder of the blood on the floor.

Purbrick, who competed for Britain in the 1980 Olympics, admitted one charge of criminal damage at Kennington, south London. Simon Nicholls, defending, said: “This case has the feel of something lifted straight out of the pages of a Jilly Cooper novel.”

Mr Nicholls said the pair, both estranged from their respective married partners, had been in a relationship for several years, adding that his client felt her affair with Lord Prior “had longevity”.

But he told Camberwell Magistrates’ Court: “To put this delicately, this comes to an end when she discovers him in the arms of another woman who is married to another member of the House of Lords.

“This was a one-off offence caused by the breakdown of a relationship.”

Purbrick, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, was ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work over 12 months and pay costs of £85 plus an £85 victim surcharge.