An angry dad bombarded the mother of his children with menacing and abusive calls just days after he’d been given a court order banning him from contacting her.

Junik Martinaj, from Bromley, said he had breached a non-molestation order because she stopped him from seeing his children after she found out he was seeing someone else.

However, a court heard the 37-year-old called the woman up to between 20 and 30 times a day and also turned up at her home in Tonbridge.

On one occasion he just stood there staring at her.

Martinaj, of Whitefoot Terrace, had been issued with a non-molestation order by the family courts on March 7 this year.

However, less than two weeks later, he ignored the ban from contacting his ex and started making aggressive calls to her, abusing her and sometimes calling her vile names.

The woman told police and Martinaj was charged with stalking and breaching a non-molestation order.

He denied the allegations but was found guilty of both after a trial in July.

He returned to Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court on September 20 to be sentenced.

The bench heard he’d first breached the order on March 19, just 12 days after it came into force.

Charlotte Frost, prosecuting, told the court the breaches happened between March 19 and March 24, when he made the repeated calls to his ex.

She said the stalking happened between April 28 and May 8, when he turned up at the woman’s home.

She added: “She started getting no caller ID calls on her phone and thinking it might be the police she answered some of them and it was him demanding to speak to the children.

‘I deserve to be left alone, but sadly I find myself in this predicament…’

“Then there were more calls and on one day she received 30 calls. She answered a couple to confirm it was him. She got calls practically every day.”

Ms Frost said the woman’s victim statement said she felt Martinaj couldn’t cope with not being in control (of their relationship) and was abusive, that she found his behaviour vile and he had a lack of control over his feelings.

The woman also said she was just trying to do right by her children and that she didn’t need the stress of his abuse which had brought back her PTSD.

The woman added: “I deserve to be left alone, but sadly I find myself in this predicament.”

The prosecutor added: “He has no other convictions, but his actions were very persistent and the calls in March, there were 30 in one day and another 20 another day, which is extremely persistent and less than three weeks after the non-molestation order was given.

“She took the non-molestation order out because she wanted to feel safe.

“He also attended her road, on one occasion in April she was taking her children to school and she saw him and then in May he was in the road adjacent to hers and was just staring at her. “

Ms Frost said she was applying for a restraining order to prevent him from contacting the woman as the non-molestation order was due to expire in March next year.

Magistrates were also told Martinaj, who has spent four months on remand for the offences, but was released from custody in July, thought the non-molestation order had expired, but accepted the fact he was responsible for the phone calls but said he had just wanted to talk to his children.

Martinaj also claimed the woman had only stopped his contact with his children when she discovered he was in another relationship.

‘You didn’t express remorse and you pose a possible risk of psychological harm to your children…’

Before that, he said, he had been allowed to take them at weekends and talk to them on the phone.

He was now making an application with the family courts to see them as he realised there should be no contact between him and his former partner whatsoever.

The chairman of the bench, addressing Martinaj as he was sentenced, said: “I will make it clear to you - if you had not been on remand for that period, you would be going to prison today, as when people don’t obey a court order, it’s a very serious matter.

“You didn’t express remorse and you pose a possible risk of psychological harm to your children.”

Martinaj received an 18-month community order which will include 150 hours of unpaid work and 40 rehabilitation sessions.

He was also made subject to a two-year restraining order banning him from contacting the woman or going near her home and must pay £675 court costs and a £114 victim surcharge.