A “jealous” ex threatened to burn down a woman’s house and her mother’s home after being dumped.
James Roberts, 32, of French Street, Widnes, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday for two counts of malicious communications after sending threatening messages to his former girlfriend Charlotte Schorar and her ex-boyfriend Jordan Farthman. Geoffrey Lowe, prosecuting, told how the woman broke up with Roberts earlier this year but he continued to make contact in person, by phone and via social media between February 4 and 10.
The messages turned violent in nature as Roberts threatened to burn down both the woman’s house and her mother’s home, adding: “Wait and see what happens when I see you”. Fearing for her family’s safety, the woman left the property with her children. Mr Lowe said Roberts was “jealous” of her relationship with ex-boyfriend Jordan Farthman so he sent Mr Farthman a WhatsApp message from an unknown number offering to fight him, following up with a picture of a gun and a threat to have people “cut open” his face that night.
