A boyfriend tried to "emotionally blackmail" his partner after she dumped him by bombarding her with messages saying he would take his own life. Tim Davis on one occasion told the woman he would "go on a rampage" if she did not get back to him.
A hearing at Derby Crown Court was told how his incessant voice calls and texts left the victim so emotionally exhausted she had to move out of her home. And the harassment offences happened just months after the 32-year-old Derby man, who had just moved from Nottingham, had been spared prison for other offences, including dangerous driving, Derbyshire Live reports.
Jailing him for eight weeks, Judge Jonathan Bennett said: "I come to the view this was intended to maximise the distress and fear with you repeatedly telling the complainant what you were going to do to yourself. The whole purpose of that was to clearly put pressure on her and it seriously distressed her.
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