Seven years for the fuel tanker attack on wife

May 1st, 2012

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Army veteran Hugh Billington who was jailed for seven years after he crashed a tanker laden with 2,000 litres of fuel into his estranged wife's home in an attempt to destroy it

Army veteran Hugh Billington was jailed for seven years after he crashed a tanker laden with 2,000 litres of fuel into his estranged wife’s home in an attempt to destroy it

A former Household Cavalry musician who tried to firebomb his estranged wife’s home by ramming a fuel tanker into it was jailed for seven years yesterday.

Hugh Billington smashed the 7.5-ton vehicle through the front wall of his former marital home, hoping to kill himself in a desperate act of revenge.

His wife Christine, 53, who had a restraining order against him, escaped through a back window.

When the crash failed to trigger an explosion, lorry driver Billington walked around the bungalow spraying kerosene in four rooms, which he then set alight.

He turned on the gas hob in the kitchen and loosened the tanker’s fuel valves before fleeing.

Passer-by Darren Fletcher reversed the tanker away to avoid a blast at the bungalow in Wool, Dorset – only yards from a primary school.

Billington, 51, attacked an off-duty special constable who tried to stop him running away and stole a pair of overalls to try to evade police following the attack on January 20 this year.

Police found a suicide note at his work in which he wrote his goodbyes to his grown-up children.

The 7.5-ton vehicle smashed through the front wall of the former marital home, Billington hope to kill himself in a desperate act of revenge

Billington’s 30 year marriage ended months before the attack.

Jailing Billington at Dorchester Crown Court, Judge Roger Jarvis said: ‘All of this took place when people were walking past, including children, and that is concerning. It shows just how wickedly irresponsible you were.’

Billington, pleaded guilty to a charge of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

A shaken-looking Christine Billington being led away fron the house. She already had a restraining order out against her husband

He also admitted a charge of dangerous driving and the assault ofan off-duty special constable.

Billington was jailed for seven years for arson, one year for dangerous driving, two months for assault and 28 days for theft of the overalls. All the sentences are to be served concurrently.

He was also banned from driving for five years.

Mrs Billington was in court for the hearing but declined to comment afterwards.

Billington drove the tanker to the bungelow in Wool, Dorset, in a bid to make it explode, luckily for everyone it failed to set alight

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He was fuelled by jealousy!

– Mike , Newcastle, 01/5/2012 08:59

Why dont these insecure possessive losers realise if they worked on themselves to be a better person, then their partners wont want to leave them. These idiots makes other peoples lives so intolerable they have to take restraining orders and still cant see the problem is them and not the other person.

– Mark, Oxford, 01/5/2012 08:38

If you go by recent past sentences, he would have only got 6 years if he’d knifed her to death.

– John German, Berlin. G, 01/5/2012 08:29

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