Showjumping trainer threw petrol and threatened to burn home down after ex dumped her

Sarah Jones, 38, was jailed for 18 months for bombarding her ex, Chris Cumming, with threatening messages, breaking into his £600,000 farmhouse, and causing her erstwhile spouse anxiousness and stress

A showjumping trainer has been jailed for a stalking run against her ex-partner successful which she burgled his location and threatened to pain it down.

Mum-of-two teenage girls, Sarah Jones, 38, refused to judge Chris Cumming, 37, was ending their relationship. They had got unneurotic astatine equine shows, which Mr Cumming attended arsenic portion of his enactment moving a high-end horsebox business. He said: “We were unneurotic for 5 years and she and her girls moved successful with maine and astatine archetypal things were good.

“But arsenic clip went connected I became unhappy successful the narration and I had to inquire them to leave. I bought my spot myself connected the backmost of my hard enactment gathering up my business, she had nary assertion to thing here. But she refused to leave. I had nary prime but to impact the constabulary and it was lone astatine that constituent that she accepted she had to leave, and erstwhile she did I had the locks changed.”

But his ordeal was not over, arsenic helium explained: “Sarah would not fto it spell and for betwixt six and 9 months she did everything she could to marque my beingness a misery.” Jones broke into the £600,000 farmhouse and was accused of taking station and a vacuum cleaner. She besides bombarded him with threatening messages.

Mr Cumming caught her throwing petrol astir his horsebox and stopped her from mounting it alight. She was past period jailed for 18 months aft admitting burglary, theft and harassment connected the time her proceedings was owed to statesman astatine Teesside crown court.

She made nary plea to charges of making threats to kill, threats to harm spot and battle by beating, and they present prevarication connected file. Mr Cumming described allowing Jones and her daughters to determination successful with him successful agrarian North Yorkshire was the worst determination of his life. He said: “You can’t ideate the effect it has connected your beingness erstwhile idiosyncratic is determined to effort to intimidate you and ruin your business. I lived successful changeless anxiousness astir what she mightiness bash next.

“She adjacent spoke to my customers, sending them messages with mendacious allegations astir maine and my business. The effects are inactive ongoing.” A restraining bid present prevents Jones from communicating with Cumming until further notice.