Man jailed for ramming car into wife in Truro Published duration 28 October 2016

media caption Mark Wiggans had tracked his wife down to Cornwall

An estranged husband who rammed his car into a car containing his wife and child has been jailed for two years.

Mark Wiggans, from West Sussex, had tracked down his wife to Cornwall and carried out the attack in a hospital car park, Truro Crown Court was told.

Wiggans, 55, had used a knife to stab at the windows of the car his wife was in before driving into it at high speed, police said.

The court heard his wife had fled to Cornwall to escape domestic abuse.

'Fears for life'

CCTV footage from 24 August shows Wiggans in the car park for the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro driving into a car, which contained his estranged wife Tina Wiggins and one of their children.

He also drove into a hospital worker when fleeing the area and was arrested by Wiltshire Police later the same day, the court heard.

image copyright Devon and Cornwall Police image caption Wiggans admitted breaching the terms of a non-molestation order

Mrs Wiggans, two friends and a child were in the car when Wiggans smashed into its side.

Police said Mrs Wiggans and her children had fled from West Sussex "to rebuild their lives away from this man".

Det Con Yvan Clarke said: "He used a hire vehicle to destroy her car by ramming it several times."

She added that Mrs Wiggans "still fears for her life and those of her children".

Wiggins, from Walberton, pleaded guilty to two breaches of a non-molestation order, two counts of criminal damage, affray and dangerous driving.