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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Wilkinson

Farmer who flipped car off land to defend his home cleared of criminal damage

PA Media

A farmer who defended his home and property by flipping a car off his land has been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage.

Fourth-generation hill farmer Robert Hooper, 57, argued in court that an Englishman’s home is his castle, and he had been assaulted before he used his tractor to remove the Vauxhall Corsa last June.

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