Chef Marco Pierre White's wife smashed up his Range Rover using child's scooter

 
Smashed car: Chef Marco Pierre White Pic: Grant Triplow
Grant Triplow
5 October 2012
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The estranged wife of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White today admitted smashing up his Range Rover and daubing insults in blood and red nail varnish on his west London home.

Matilde Conejero, 47, used a child’s scooter to smash the front and rear windscreens of the TV star’s top-of-the-range 4X4, causing £12,000 damage.

When he failed to answer the buzzer to his home, the mother of three used her own blood and red nail varnish to scrawl abusive grafitti on the walls of the communal hall outside his front door.

Eventually, when another woman appeared at the door, Conejero “lurched” at her in a jealous rage and had to be restrained by police,

Isleworth crown court heard. Nicholas Alexander, prosecuting, said the 50-year-old chef was woken by the commotion outside his home in Holland Park on May 7.

Mr Alexander said: “He had been sleeping and was awoken to be told his ex-wife was outside the property.

“He could hear noise coming from outside the property and went to the window to see what it was.

“Whilst looking through the window he could see his wife by his Range Rover, smashing the vehicle and damaging it using a child’s scooter. Extensive damage was caused to the vehicle.”

Conejero, who pleaded not guilty at magistrates’ court, changed her plea to guilty when the Crown Prosecution Service refused to drop the charges.

Judge Philip Matthews adjourned sentencing until later this month, but indicated she did not face custody.

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