A former helicopter pilot who spent four years barricaded inside a farmhouse which he lost in a divorce battle has attached an effigy of a man committing suicide to a car and set fire to it.

Peter Elliott has turned the £500,000 property in Appleby, Cumbria, into a fortress and surrounded it with barbed wire, tree branches and fitted CCTV cameras.

His ex-wife Leonie Butler, 45, obtained a court order in 2012 forcing him to leave Pinewood Farm following their bitter £6 million split.

Peter Elliott, 49, from Cumbria set fire to his car and a effigy of a man committing suicide today in protest of him being forced to leave his farmhouse after a divorce settlement with his ex-wife Leonie Butler, 45, in 2012

However the 49-year-old refused to vacate the property and insisted he would only be removed 'in a body bag'.

Elliott has today constructed an effigy of a man dressed in a suit, representing himself, hung it from a gibbet and attached it to a VW Golf.

He then scrolled 'injustice' in red paint on the side of the car before setting the vehicle alight.

The former helicopter pilot has not only refused to leave the property to enable it to be sold but he has also created a fortress of barbed wire and CCTV

He has said he will only be removed in a 'body bag'

He wrote 'injustice' on his VW Golf before setting it alight and taking pictures of it burning

A High Court judge has ruled that Mr Elliott should be arrested and jailed.

Mr Justice Keehan has concluded Peter Elliott had failed to comply with an order requiring him to leave his farmhouse home in Cumbria.

He issued a ‘warrant for committal’ today after analysing the case at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.

Today a High Court judge in London has ruled Mr Elliott should be arrested and jailed

The court battle has been going on for four years after Leonie Butler obtained a court order forcing him to leave the £500,000 property

Despite his protest Mr Elliot will be arrested and the house put on the market

Mr Elliott has failed in bids to mount a challenge in the Court of Appeal.

Earlier this summer, another High Court judge concluded Mr Elliott had not left the property and was in contempt of court.

Mr Justice Moylan, who is also based in the Family Division of the High Court in London, had imposed a suspended six-month sentence on condition that Mr Elliott handed the property to Ms Butler as ordered.

Mr Justice Keehan concluded Mr Elliott had not left the property and had not complied with the terms of Mr Justice Moylan's order.

A lawyer involved in the case said Mr Elliott would now be arrested and taken to jail to serve his sentence - and the property put up for sale.