A farmer who ‘defended his home’ by flipping a car off his land with a forklift has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
Robert Hooper, 57, argued in court an Englishman's home is his castle and that he had been assaulted before he used his tractor to forcibly remove the Vauxhall Corsa last June.
Mobile phone footage showed him using a telehandler with forks to lift the £16,000 car from the lane outside his farm in Newbiggin-in-Teesdale, County Durham.
