‘Lost it, got drill and sunk boat’ woman jailed

A WOMAN was jailed for 18 months yesterday for sinking her husband’s yacht on Valentine’s Day.

Mandy Fleming, aged 47, had gone to the Double Dragon in Brighton marina for a “menage-a-trios” with her then lover David Brown and his wife Nemone, the Old Bailey heard.

But she “lost it” after seeing her estranged husband Adam had spent money on a new TV and other items for the boat whilst saying he didn’t have any money.

She drilled three holes in the hull and turned on cooker gas taps which turned the £75,000 vessel into “an explosive bomb”.

Fleming pleaded guilty to endangering life by causing criminal damage in 2004, when she appeared in court last month. Judge Richard Hone told her: “You were a manipulative, angry and troubled individual.”

Fleming wept as she was told she would have to serve half the sentence, less the two-and-a-half months she had initially spent in custody.

The court was told turning on a light would have been enough to blow up the boat.

Police later found an entry in Fleming’s diary which read: “Lost it, got drill and sunk boat. Now I am in shit.”