A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old legal principle that “an Englishman’s home is his castle”.
Robert Hooper, 57, became an internet sensation in June last year, when a video of him using the spikes on his telehandler to flip a £16,000 Vauxhall Corsa went viral on social media.
The hill farmer from Upper Teesdale said he had been forced to take action after he came under attack from a "strutting and agitated" shirtless youth, who had refused to move the car from his land.
Mr Hooper said he did not call police because he had been burgled eight times and found they were often slow to respond.
He went on trial at Durham Crown Court after being charged with dangerous driving and criminal damage.
But he was acquitted of all charges after telling the jury: “An Englishman's home is his castle and my castle starts at that front gate."
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