Pilot has days to quit home he’s been barricaded in for FOUR YEARS after divorce fight or face jail
Peter Elliot, 49, says he'll only be removed from £500k farmhouse 'in a body bag'
A HELICOPTER pilot who faces jail for barricading himself inside the home he lost in a £6million divorce battle yesterday vowed: "You won't take me alive."
Stubborn Peter Elliott, 49, refuses to leave the couple's £500,000 farmhouse in Appleby, Cumbria, and insists he will only be removed in "a body bag".
But appeal court judges have now warned him that he will be forced to serve a six-month prison sentence unless he moves out of the 70-acre property.
He has until Thursday to leave Pinewood - but insists he is going nowhere without a fight.
He has now turned the home into a fortress and has even taken to standing on the roof - alongside a banner that reads "#injustice" - to fend off security firms and bailiffs.
Mr Elliott insisted: "I will never leave under any circumstances whatsoever.
"My ex-wife has taken literally everything from me.
An Englishman's home is his castle. No one gets mine while I've a beating heart
"She has her job, her career, her pension, her lifestyle and now all my houses.
"This is a death sentence for me. It's an execution.
"The judge expects me to move onto the streets with nothing.
"An Englishman's home is his castle. No one gets mine while I've a beating heart."
He added: "I am perfectly sane but a very determined fellow and I will not tolerate injustice. Pinewood is 100 per cent mine."
The Court of Appeal heard Mr Elliott, formerly a £96,000-a-year pilot for the boss of infrastructure firm Stobart, was first ordered out in 2012.
It followed a bitter £6million divorce from ex-wife, Leonie Butler, 45, who obtained a court order forcing him to vacate the former matrimonial home.
Proceeds from the sale of the house were supposed to be used to pay off the couple's debts but Mr Elliott refuses to budge.
My ex-wife has taken literally everything from me. She has her job, her career, her pension, her lifestyle and now all my houses
The pair met in 1991 and married in 1998 before splitting in 2010, according to Peter. Leonie filed for divorce in 2012.
Rejecting his appeal Lady Justice Macur said: "He is defying the order of the court.
"Whatever his mental health issues, he has formed a view that he will deny the order of the court.
"He has, once dispossessed, resumed possession and does so in defiance of anyone who attempts to remove him.
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"However mistaken his assertion of righteousness of remaining in the property, he had formed a view that he would defy the order and had done so for a considerable period."
Mr Elliott, who was employed to fly Stobart's chief executive Andrew Tinkler, was not in court.
His lawyer Usha Sood argued that he suffers from mental health problems which had not been properly considered by the courts.
She said it was doubtful whether he could be in "knowing and wilful breach" of the order, given his difficulties.