A wife placed on a rehabilitation order after going on a £19,000 wrecking spree at her husband's home has had her sentence revoked.

Lyn Drouin, 52, received a two-year community rehabilitation order in February last year after she admitted causing criminal damage to her husband Philip's home in Greenhill Way, Haywards Heath, in October 2001.

Drouin, a seamstress, of Norfolk Gardens, Littlehampton, told police a "red mist" descended following the traumatic break-up of her 26-year marriage, Lewes Crown Court heard.

She had broken into her former husband's home a year after the split.

Mr Drouin had begun a relationship with a younger woman, just seven years older than the couple's daughter.

She damaged the kitchen, smashed pictures and a stereo in the living room and cut up his clothes with scissors.

The probation service applied to the court to revoke the order because of the good progress she had made since it was imposed.