A teenager sent his father a torrent of abusive and threatening messages after being blocked on Facebook.

Furious Taylor Hansen, 18, felt so upset that he threatened to burn down his dad’s home with his new family inside.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how one of the chilling messages he sent was: “Let’s see who gets killed first!”

Hansen, from Kilndown Close, Ashford, also threatened to “fill him in” and “burn your house down with all your little kids”.

Prosecutor Eleanor Scott-Davies said the teenager said he would smash his father’s jaw “to pieces” before being arrested by police.

Then while on police bail he demanded his father drop the charges and when the request was rejected, called his father to tell him that he was going to be “chivvied up” which is street slang for being stabbed.

His father took the threats so seriously he was given a panic alarm by police.

Now Hansen has been banned from communicating with his father for the next five years or risk going to prison.

The teenager admitted sending malicious communications to his father and also witness intimidation and was given a two year community order and ordered to stay indoors between 8pm and 6am for the next three months.

Judge Rupert Lowe told Hansen, who had been in prison on remand for the past two months: “You may spend a considerable portion of your adult life in prison...in the end it’s going to be up to you!”

The court heard that Hansen was bitter after the break up of his parents’ marriage and sent messages to his father on Facebook in August last year.

Judge Lowe added: “Your father blocked you on Facebook because he had had enough from you and you were upset. You had a very difficult relationship with your father.

“You have never been able to resolve your relationship with him...and as a result of him blocking you which resulted in you sending abusive and threatening messages."

Bartholomew O’Toole, defending, said Hansen was “an angry young man” but had no intention to carry out his threats.