Bryan Bamford, who came home one day to find his wife and her lesbian lover kissing, denies that he cut the brake pipes of the car his wife’s lesbian lover was driving. Instead, he claims it was her, the lesbian lover, who cut the pipes.

It was also found that potatoes had been stuffed into the car’s exhaust pipe, suggesting someone had tampered with it, and the police were informed.

Bamford was later arrested and his own Toyota Corina was searched, and a pair of pliers found in the boot.

Forensic tests allegedly later confirmed that they had been used to cut the brake pipes.

The court has previously heard that Bamford took the marital split badly. It is claimed he bombarded his wife with telephone calls and text messages after they separated.

His wife has her own denial problems:

He said he had no idea his marriage of eight years was in trouble until he caught his wife and her friend together in May last year.

On the morning he discovered them together he had left home to help a relative with a spot of DIY but returned when he realised he’d forgotten his overalls, he told the court.

“I walked in there and both of them were on the settee and they were kissing,” he told the jury.

“I said, ‘What the hell is going on ?’, Karen jumped up and said, ‘We are not doing anything’.

“I said, ‘I saw you kiss her’, and she said, ‘No we weren’t, no we weren’t’.”