Pig blood escapade was 'excruciatingly funny' says Lizzie Purbrick

Lizzie Purbrick, who used pig's blood to daub lewd messages inside a Tory peer's house after discovering that he had cheated on her, has said that the escapade was “excruciatingly funny”.

The former Olympic showjumper told how she was unphased by the £170 fine and a community service order imposed on her by the courts for criminal damage, quipping: "I love community service, I run charities in Africa."

Purbrick, 63,  admitted last week to using a key to enter the south London home of Conservative peer David Prior as a "cathartic" response to seeing her partner of several years "in the arms of another woman".

She told The Times:  "I'm quite imaginative and as a woman scorned goes, I know how to scorn. I thought it was so dull to go and cut up the ties."

She said that she accepted that the relationship was over after discovering hundreds of “very naughty” emails and text messages between Lord Prior and his new lover.

But it was after she went to collect her belongings from Lord Prior, and accidentally walked in on the peer "at it" with his new lover, that she decided to exact her revenge.

"It was ten past ten on a Monday morning, and they were hard at it. They leapt out of bed and David said, 'Let's go and have a cup of coffee.' We sat like some English comedy, all sitting around the smart table making polite conversation, then I got up and left,” she said. 

Purbrick went to see her local butcher a told him she was playing Lady Macbeth in a play so needed plenty of blood, originally intending to daub a few words in pig’s blood on Lord Prior’s walls.  

"Then I got on a bit of a high, I'm an adrenaline junkie so I thought I had to give it the whole hog. The painting took two canfuls, so I thought, what do I do with the rest? I'm not going to put it in the sink, that's rather nasty,” she said.

“So I just poured it into the doorwell. There was so much it just sloshed over the top and went down to the road. It was so harmless. It was just funny, excruciatingly funny." There was £15,000 worth of damage, according to Lord Prior.

"He would have got the wall repainted and nobody would have ever known but it went fabulously my way. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think it would go so well,” Purbrick said.

Last week, Camberwell Magistrates' Court heard Purbrick used a garden sprayer and several litres of pig's blood to cover the walls with phrases such as "whore, lady slut" and "big d*** lord" on May 9.

In what was described by the defence as “something lifted straight out of the pages of a Jilly Cooper novel”, she also drew a penis and left a cheque for £1,000 before pouring the remainder of the blood on the floor and leaving.