Shelly Bertram was jailed after driving with her partner on the car bonnet when she caught him smoking indoors

A furious bride-to-be snapped in a row with her fiance, driving for three-and-a-half miles with him on the bonnet of a new £60,000 Range Rover he paid for after she caught him smoking.

Drunk Shelly Bertram reached speeds of up to 70 mph, swerving and braking hard to try and shake partner Clive Gibbs off the car, a court heard.

The builder suffered cuts and bruises to his head, legs and arms as he tried to stop his future wife from drink-driving in the car he bought her.

Portsmouth Crown Court, Hampshire, heard businesswoman Bertram flew into a rage just two weeks before her wedding when she spotted Mr Gibbs smoking indoors after they got home from a night out.

The cleaning firm owner stormed out of their home in Waterlooville, Hampshire, getting into the new Range Rover that Mr Gibbs had bought for her.

As Bertram, who had been drinking alcohol, went to drive away from the property, her partner flung himself onto the bonnet to try and stop her.

But the court heard she ‘floored it’ onto the A3 as Mr Gibbs screamed at her to stop as his legs dragged along the road.

He eventually jumped off the front of the car three and half miles down the road near Horndean.

Bertram fled to her friend’s house, then to another man’s house, where she was arrested.

A breath test revealed she had 48 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the legal limit is 35.

Prosecutor Kelly Brocklehurst told the court Bertram had left Mr Gibbs in the road.

'The defendant did not pause for a moment to check if her future husband was alright as he jumped from her bonnet.

'She just drove away.'

Self-employed Mr Gibbs said he lost a £250,000 roofing contract after not being able to work in the months after the incident on June 12 last year.

'That night absolutely destroyed me, she was supposed to be marrying me.

'It has destroyed my life, after that I felt absolutely gutted.

'I went outside after our argument and I heard the Range Rover I had bought her as a wedding present starting up.

'She [Bertram] drove out to where I was standing and so I grabbed the bonnet.

Clive Gibbs says the incident destroyed his life, after the woman he met on Plenty of Fish drove him for three-and-a-half miles on the bonnet of her Range Rover

'She then drove three and a half miles with me on the bonnet, hitting the brakes and swerving.

'I was screaming "I love you, stop the car what are you doing to me?" at her.

'I was crying, screaming, holding on. We got on the slip road, I remember losing grip – I’m being dragged along, with one arm holding on.

'I was losing my grip, hanging on for dear life and I knew I was going to have to let go.

'I decided I would do it when she slowed down and when she hit the brakes I let go and rolled into a hedge at the side of the road and called an ambulance.

'I’m still not fully back at work and I still wake up at 2am thinking about that night.

'She said she loved me, and never loved anyone like it and that she’d been waiting for someone like me all her life.

'I just wanted to know why? Why did she do it? I’ll never know.'

The couple, who met on dating site Plenty of Fish, were due to fly off to Thailand and Dubai after the wedding on June 25 on their honeymoon, costing £10,000.

Mitigating, James Caldwell said Bertram, of Portsmouth, told probation Mr Gibbs was her ‘soulmate’ but added the relationship had difficulties and troubles like any other.

'She had just been involved in a sad and tragic event, when she was given devastating news that she wouldn’t be able to fit in her wedding dress.'

Mum-of-two Bertram admitted dangerous driving, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and drink-driving on the first day of her trial last month.

Judge David Melville QC sentenced her to 18-months in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered her to complete 200 hours unpaid work.

He also banned her from driving for 18 months, adding she would have to complete an extended retest before getting her licence back and ordered her to pay £1,200 costs.

'This was totally out of character to you.

'However insane and a moment of madness, it was totally out of character.'