Women sent a pig's head in family row

A woman was left “absolutely distraught” after she excitedly opened a birthday present only to discover a dismembered pig’s head.

The box was delivered to Kim Teague days before her 50th birthday and was tied up with ribbons and a helium balloon.

But instead of a present it contained the head lying on a bed of tissue paper and the words: “Fat c***” written on the flaps of the box. The message RIP was scrawled on the pig’s forehead.



Kingston Crown Court, sitting in Wimbledon, had heard that Miss Teague had sometime earlier fallen out with her sister-in-law’s boyfriend, Martin Anderson.

Prosecutor Timothy Spencer said she had been “targeted for one reason only”, and that was because she and Anderson had argued.

He denies putting a person in fear of violence due to harassment. Case continues.