The daughter of a wealthy businessman planned an “elaborate conspiracy” to have her former boyfriend assassinated by hitmen, a court heard.

Rebecca Deferia, 30, allegedly arranged with her father for three hitmen to shoot Jonathan Catchpole, 38, at his home in return for at least £12,500.

One of the hitmen shouted, “Rebecca wants you dead”, just before Mr Catchpole was shot in the chest with a sawn-off shotgun, Ipswich Crown Court was told. Mr Catchpole survived the attack on Aug 4, 2015 at his flat in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, said it was “the final act of an elaborate conspiracy or plan to murder Mr Catchpole” which was hatched by Miss Deferia, her father and the hitmen. Mr Jackson said her father, Colin Deferia, was a wealthy and successful businessman with his own construction firm and his daughter was an only child who “appeared to want for nothing”.

He said there was also evidence that Miss Deferia, who worked in the accounts department at her father’s firm, had organised an earlier attack on Mr Catchpole’s car when its brake lines were severed.

Miss Deferia, of Red Lodge, Suffolk, denies a charge of conspiracy to murder. She ended her five-year relationship with Mr Catchpole in June 2013, the court heard. She changed the locks on the home they shared in Bury St Edmunds, preventing him from picking up his possessions, said Mr Jackson.