A JEALOUS husband has avoided jail after running over his wife’s lover on the pavement.
Paul Rudd, 58, waited for the pair to leave a pub then drove at Adrian Boakes at 10mph.
Ex-Royal Navy officer Rudd had warned his wife earlier: “I’m going to run the c*** over.”
Mr Boakes suffered a broken nose, torn kidney and concussion.
Rudd called 999, claiming: “He stepped in front of me.”
Mr Boakes was hit in Dodleston, Cheshire, in February.
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Chester crown court heard the affair had ended weeks earlier.
Business consultant Rudd pleaded guilty to GBH and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He was sentenced to 17 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
Rudd, from Broughton, near Wrexham, who braked before impact, was also banned from driving for two years.
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