Jail for aristocrat who trashed his home to stop it being sold to his ex-wife

  An aristocrat who smashed up his £1m home in a bid to stop it being sold during his bitter divorce battle was jailed for 18 months today (Weds). Desmond Fitzgerald, 63, smashed up pictures and ornaments with a hammer at the house he shared with his ex-wife, lawyer Catherine Akester, in King’s Cross, central London. He then ripped off the radiators, knocked over furniture and blocked the sink to flood the terraced house at 23 Medburn Street. The flood…