Lizzie Purbrick, a former champion equestrian, admitted in a British court that she scrawled rude messages inside her lover's house in pig's blood as revenge for an affair.
She said she discovered her partner, conservative member of Parliament David Prior, was sleeping with another woman.
So in May, she let herself into his South London home, armed with the blood. Purbrick turned herself into police quickly, and confessed to the crime in court on Tuesday. She called the blood-spraying act "cathartic. The Telegraph reports on her crime:. Purbrick "played loud music" as she sprayed the blood around, and selected pig's blood on purpose because Prior "liked pigs," the BBC reports.
Her defense attorney, Simon Nicholls, tells NPR there was "no dispute about the pig's blood" or the writing on the walls. His argument in her defense, he said, was that this was a "one-off incident" — a hot-blooded crime, not a cold-blooded one, if you will. As a result, he argued, a restraining order was not necessary. The judge was not convinced and imposed the restraining order anyway.
Nicholls also apologized in court for his client appearing in pink shorts and a white T-shirt. He tells NPR that she couldn't find an Uber or a cab, and had to walk "a significant distance" from the London Underground station to the courthouse. She arrived just in time for the trial, without enough time to change into the more formal clothes she brought with her, he said.
