Lord Prior, who has been married for 31 years and is the son of cabinet minister Jim Prior, called the police who arrested Purbrick
An ex-Olympic showjumper’s affair with a married Lord has been laid bare after she was accused of writing insults on the walls of his £1million home in pig blood.
Lizzie Purbrick is alleged to have broken into Tory David Prior’s London flat where they shared secret trysts.
The 63-year-old former Olympian appeared in court this week where her alleged affair with the peer was revealed.
Lord Prior, who has been married for 31 years and is the son of cabinet minister Jim Prior, called the police who arrested Purbrick.
She was part of the Great Britain team at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and denies burgling the Lord’s flat with intent to do unlawful damage.
Appearing at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court, South London, her lawyer Simon Nicholls said: ‘It is said she has gone to her ex-lover’s flat in London with two pints of pigs’ blood and daubed the walls with words and symbols,’ reports The Sun.
‘Lord Prior is the complainant and the address is the location where they would meet.’
Correcting her lawyer outside court, Purbrick said ‘five litres’ of pigs’ blood was used to daub ‘offensive and explicit’ words.
Lizzie Purbrick was part of the Great Britain team at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and denies burgling the Lord’s flat with intent to do unlawful damage. She is pictured left and right at the Badminton Horse Trials in 1983
The alleged burglary is said to have taken place on May 9 at Lord Prior’s Kennington flat, in South London.
Purbrick, of Wells-next-the Sea, in Norfolk, is to face trial next month.
The showjumper won the Armada Dish at 1984’s Badminton Horse Trials.
She also competed in the World Championships in 1978 at Lexington, Kentucky before jumping in the 1980 Olympics in the then-Soviet Union.
Cambridge-educated Lord Prior – a prominent Remainer – married his wife Caroline on Valentine’s Day 1987 and they had two children together.
They are now believed to have separated.
The peer was among 19 Tories who voted to strip Theresa May of the ability to walk away with no deal.
The former investment banker was blasted by Ian Duncan Smith after telling a private meeting it would be the ‘softest of soft Brexits’.
In 2016 he urged the Prime Minister to stay in the singly market, saying: ‘My personal view is that leaving Europe was a terrible mistake.’
He is a former health minister for David Cameron’s government and was MP for North Norfolk between 1997 and 2001.
In 2016 he became Parliamentary Under of State at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in 2016.
A friend of Lord Prior told The Sun that the peer had separated from his wife a few year ago but the divorce is still to take place.
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