Defiance of woman in pig blood attack

A FORMER Olympic showjumper was accused of ‘playing the system’ yesterday after avoiding community work imposed by a court when she used pigs’ blood to daub obscene messages in her Tory peer ex-lover’s house.

Lizzie Purbrick, 63, was given a 12-month community order with 120 hours of unpaid labour after admitting criminal damage at the £1 million home of David Prior, 64, when she found him in bed with another woman.

She could have been jailed after King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court in Norfolk heard said she ‘wilfully’ refused to do the work, but magistrates let her off with a suspended sentence.

Purbrick, pictured, had already declined to pay the £15,000 bill Lord Prior sent her to redecorate his house, meaning she has effectively avoided any punishment.

Victims’ rights campaigner Harry Fletcher said: ‘It appears that this individual never had any intention of completing the unpaid work. She has played the system to avoid the unpaid work.’

In a statement through her solicitor, Purbrick said she was ‘relieved’.