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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Wilkinson

Farmer cleared by court after flipping car off land suffered ‘months of hell’

PA Wire

A farmer who was cleared by a jury after he defended his home and property by flipping a car off his land has been through months of hell, his partner said.

Fourth-generation hill farmer Robert Hooper argued in court that an Englishman’s home is his castle and he had been assaulted before mobile phone footage showed him using his tractor to shift the Vauxhall Corsa last June.

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