- Nathan Blagg, 28, has been sentenced to seven years and two months in prison, with an extended licence of two years, after stealing a tractor and ramming it into a Middlesbrough home linked to his rival, Luke Lancaster, during an ongoing feud.
- Teesside Crown Court heard that the tractor crash caused extensive damage requiring the terraced house to be virtually rebuilt, alongside causing £56,000 in damage to the tractor and writing off a £30,000 hay baler.
- Blagg acted out of retaliation after Lancaster filmed himself urinating on and kicking the gravestones of Blagg's deceased father and brother, as well as driving a car into Blagg during a previous altercation in Middlesbrough town centre.
- Five days after the house attack, Blagg stole a Jaguar while already disqualified from driving and crashed it into a lamppost at high speed, leaving both himself and his passenger seriously injured.
- Recorder Paul Reid condemned the gravity of the offences and banned Blagg from driving for seven years, while police emphasised the severe threat posed to nearby occupants who had to evacuate due to structural damage.
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