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Adelaide Lang

Jealous ex-cop's scary threats to teen girlfriend

A former police officer sent his teenage girlfriend a barrage of threatening text messages. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A former police officer acted out of jealousy when he intimidated his teenage girlfriend after being convicted of assaulting his former partner, a court has been told. 

Nicholas James Villanueva, then 29, had been in a "rocky and toxic" open relationship with a 17-year-old for about three months when he accused her of cheating on him in August 2023. 

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