Anthony Tye, 35, drove his new Mercedes straight at the pair who were stood at the front steps of the house
A man who beat up his ex girlfriend and her dad before ploughing his car into her mum and a visiting nurse has been jailed for 10 years.
Anthony Tye, 35, drove his new Mercedes straight at the pair who were stood at the front steps of the house in Stockton.
He and two other women had driven to his ex-girlfriend’s mum’s house after she ended their relationship on the afternoon of August 22 last year.
All three got out of the car, and one of the women, who has never been identified, began attacking Tye’s former girlfriend, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Tye climbed up onto his ex’s car roof and began smashing her windscreen and jumping up and down on the car.
He then climbed down and punched his ex, and kicked her in the ribs, as the second woman joined in with the assault.
Tye stole his victim’s mobile phone before the three drove off.
The victim was so affected by the attack she had requested help for her mental health, but as the two nurses arrived the next day Tye ploughed his car into the front garden.
Police cordon on Tithe Barn Road in Hardwick, Stockton (Picture: Teesside Live)
He had turned up at the house and asked to see his ex-girlfriend, but her parents told him to leave.
But moments later as Tye’s former partner’s mum was standing in the front garden talking to one of the nurses, ‘they both heard a loud revving of an engine fast approaching’.
Nick Dry, prosecuting, said: ‘The defendant’s vehicle knocked over a lamp post before ploughing across neighbours’ gardens and into his ex-partner’s garden.’
His ex’s mother and the nurse had to jump out of the way.
Tye emerged from his white Mercedes and hurled a brick through the living room window before attacking his ex-partner’s dad with another brick.
Mr Dry said that the man ‘had come outside to defend his family’ and he was left with a swollen jaw, and two broken fingers.
Seconds later, a second car drove up to the house and picked Tye up.
He was arrested by police days later, punching an officer as he was handcuffed.
Tye refused to answer police questions, but said he had paid £25,000 for his Mercedes two days earlier, and that his ‘stupid f****** animal’ of a car was to blame.
‘He said his car was stupid and dangerous,’ Mr Dry told the court, ‘and that he’d been “off his face” for a month or so. He said he had taken hundreds of Zopiclone tablets on the day of the crash.’
Tye pleaded guilty to attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, criminal damage, assaulting an emergency worker, assault and theft.
Judge Jonathan Carroll said: ‘Your former partner had made it clear that the relationship was over, and you were not willing to accept that. As the report from probation makes clear, you are full of anger, entitlement and you have distorted attitudes.
‘This was made worse by your underlying psychiatric state and by your appalling abuse of drugs. On these two days, you focused all of your anger on your former partner, her family, and the public servants who had come to help her.
‘You drove your vehicle at considerable speed, smashing your way into the gardens of your ex-partner’s family and her neighbours. You lay into her father with a brick.’
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