Moment retired police chief smashes into ex-wife's home during attack

A retired chief has been jailed for six years after plotting a savage attack against his ex-wife, which also saw him trying to kill himself.

Ex-Metropolitan Police Superintendent Martyn Horne armed himself with two knives, rope and tape and had aimed to tie up his former lover and assault her after barging into her home on October 16 2023, a court heard.

On the eve of his ambush, the 73-year-old, from Drayton Beauchamp near Aylesbury, Bucks, parked his car at a reservoir and then crept to the house before hiding in a garden shed until the morning, when he attempted his raid.

Horne cut tape and stuck it to his top for easy peeling and cut rope to a certain length all to restrain his wife during his planned onslaught against her, the judge said during the sentencing hearing at Reading Crown Court. 

In dramatic doorbell footage shown in court, Horne  - dressed in a brown coat and black trousers - is seen ramming the front door with his shoulder before smashing his way through as his horrified ex-lover yelled in the background. 

Fortunately, the disgraced former police chief's...
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