A thug who deliberately smashed into a bungalow where an elderly woman lay sleeping in an attempt to take his own life has been jailed for four years.
Michael Vose, 40, got behind the wheel of his BMW after his girlfriend called the police following a vicious row, which saw Vose attempt to throttle her before punching a hole in the wall and damaging a wardrobe mirror. He told her he was going to kill himself, and took off in the car, driving over a mini roundabout before smashing through a fence and into a bungalow in Westhoughton, Bolton.
Vose smashed through the wall, leaving his BMW smashed into the bedroom of 92-year-old Edna Kearns. The car hit Mrs Kearns' bed, and left her with two fractured ankles and severe cuts to her legs. As she cried for help, Vose stumbled away, with police eventually finding and arresting him on Snydale Way, a nearby dual carriageway, as he walked down the middle of the road with swollen hands and ‘significant’ cuts to his head.
