A former investment banker was today cleared of assaulting his wife in their £11m mansion after accusing her of being a gold digger .
Clive Standish, 68, was accused of attacking Anna Standish, who was in the process of divorcing him, by trying to barge down a door she was behind.
Anna, who threatened to get him out of their luxurious 83-acre mansion in Basingstoke, had previously claimed her husband tried to punch her during the dispute.
But a District Judge threw out the case against him saying that in his view the breakdown of the marriage had led to emotion interfering with reality .
THE DIRECTOR of an Andover-based business who crashed his vehicle whilst drunk has been disqualified from driving. Joshua Raymond Pritchard, who owns the tree surgeon business GroundLord Ltd, required hospital treatment after the crash on February 1 last year. He was travelling on the A343 through Hurstbourne Tarrant when he clipped a traffic island and overturned his Polaris Ranger. A blood test in hospital revealed he had 190 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of his blood, more than twice the limit of 80. Defending Pritchard at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on Thursday morning, Tom Brymer said that the 30-year-old had found the time that the pandemic-delayed case had been hanging over him very difficult .
A BUSINESSMAN who crashed his vehicle whilst drunk has been disqualified from driving. Joshua Raymond Pritchard, who owns the tree surgeon business GroundLord Ltd, required hospital treatment after the crash on February 1 last year. He was travelling on the A343 through Hurstbourne Tarrant when he clipped a traffic island and overturned his Polaris Ranger. A blood test in hospital revealed he had 190 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of his blood, more than twice the limit of 80. Defending Pritchard at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on Thursday morning, Tom Brymer said that the 30-year-old had found the time that the pandemic-delayed case had been hanging over him very difficult .