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A farmer stuffed apples into the exhaust of an ex-lover’s car and scrawled the words ‘t**tyc**t’ on his garden gate after vowing revenge when he broke up their on-again-off-again affair.
Melanie Meigh, 19, vandalized Jack McMahon’s vehicle with spray paint and also dropped his tires after she had previously warned him: “I hope you like your car.”
Mr McMahon rushed home from work following a notice to find Meigh on the doorstep of his home in Tarporley, Cheshire, advising him that his family from London was ‘on their way’.
It turned out that he had stolen Mr. McMahon’s passport, a set of keys and £12 in cash before fleeing.
Melaine Meigh, 19, from Cheshire, admitted charges of criminal damage, robbery and harassment.
Meigh, pictured outside Warrington Magistrates Court, will be sentenced on February 1.
Meigh, from Middlewich, Cheshire, subsequently called the victim several times, bragging: “I hope you like apples”, “Cheers to the wrenches” and “I’ve got your passport”.
She and a friend who were caught loitering inside the house were later arrested for damages.
Meigh admitted to four counts of criminal damage, three theft and one stalking at Warrington Magistrates Court and is due to be sentenced next month.
Meigh vandalized her ex-lover Jack McMahon’s vehicle with spray paint and also dropped his tires, a court heard
Arron Smith, the prosecutor, said the incidents occurred in August after McMahon met Meigh online.
“I had met Miss Meigh on a dating app and had known her for about three weeks,” he added.
They weren’t in a relationship, but he had been intimate with her. He decided that he did not want a relationship in the future.
‘On August 12, in the early morning hours of that day, I wanted Miss Meigh to leave her address. A friend came to pick her up, however the victim agreed to let her stay at her address.
Meigh had met the man on a dating app and they had known each other for about three weeks, a court heard.
‘The next day he went to work, but before he left there was an argument with Miss Meigh. She said her house was going to be vandalized and added, “I hope you like your car.”
Later, at work, he was informed that a black Nissan pickup was outside his property. He later realized that the damage had been done.
Amid the damage spree, apples and spray paint had been attached to the exhaust of his car, and insulting words were painted on the fence and gate.
“The tires were also disappointed in terms of the context of what happened,” said Mr Smith: “When the gentleman returned home, he found Miss Meigh at the door.
Meigh admitted to four counts of criminal damage, three theft and one stalking at Warrington Magistrates Court and is due to be sentenced next month.
The victim said there was a phone call. Miss Meigh then told him that her family from London was on their way. She didn’t say why they were coming, but he took it as a threat to him and his property.
There are a number of offenses before the court, a number of incidents, including harassment. It was a relatively short period of time during which it took place, but Mr. McMahon suffered some heartbreak as well.
“He took it as a threat that people would come from London and attend his property.
‘Criminal damage could be considered a revenge attack. It was clearly retaliation of some kind for the end of the relationship or how it ended.”
“There’s a bit of immaturity here,” Mr. Flood said. “It was a very brief relationship, as you’ve heard. I’m not sure it’s revenge, maybe that’s too strong a word. But there’s a lot of meanness here.
They are all fairly minor offences. There was some choice language about the fence and apples in the exhaust and some burglary on the property when she stayed there.
Meigh, a farmer, previously attended Reaseheath College specializing in Cheshire soil.
‘She has her own apartment and is seven months pregnant, not by Mr. McMahon but by a former young man with whom she is no longer in a relationship;;;
The magistrates postponed the sentence until February 1.
“It is to his credit that he has pleaded guilty to a number of offences,” said Chairman Andrew Pope.
“We don’t care if the offenses are really serious or minor, as we are not sentencing him today, but we think he would benefit from contracting with the probation service.
We think you need some support or rehabilitation to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We agree that there is a bit of immaturity going around.
“Painting things and putting apples and bananas down the tailpipe of a car was happening when I was 13 or 14 years old.”
He previously attended Reaseheath College specializing in Cheshire land.
A 24-year-old man arrested in the vandalism spree has denied wrongdoing and will face trial in May.