Jilted boyfriend takes baked potato revenge on ex

A jilted man made a bonfire of his ex's clothes, - then baked a potato on it, a court heard.

Mark Vaughan, 27, emptied Kathryn Leigh's wardrobe of gear worth £6,000 - plus 45 pairs of shoes - after seeing her kiss another man.

He added her laptop to the pile before dousing it with petrol in the street.



Police civilian investigator Katherine returned from a nightclub to find a burnt mess in the road outside their house in Farnborough, Hants. Cops arrived to find him "extremely drunk" and baking the potato.

Guildford Crown Court, Surrey, heard he had sent her texts threatening to burn her things.

He admitted arson and got a 12-month supervision order, £600 costs and 100 hours unpaid work.