Man blew up wife’s car with homemade bomb

A BRITISH man wired a homemade bomb to his wife’s car after he started an affair with a woman he met on the internet, a court was told yesterday.

Engineer Robert Bottom, 36, told his wife Caroline he was fitting a hands-free mobile phone in her Peugeot car parked at their home in Chattenden, Rochester in Kent on Christmas Eve last year, Maidstone Crown Court was told.

Later that night Mrs Bottom, who works as a carer of the elderly, was driving home from a visit when there was "an almighty explosion", the court heard yesterday.