A jilted dad sent abusive and threatening messages to the mother of his children before urinating through her letterbox.

Blake Everhurst targeted his former partner's home in what a judge described as a “disgraceful and disgusting act of contempt and punishment”.

Not only were his children in the house at the time but the 31-year-old was also on police bail with conditions not to go to the Gravesend property or to contact the woman.

But Maidstone Crown Court heard that at about 11.30pm on June 9 this year she had suddenly heard the sound of running “water”, only to discover a “yellow liquid” flowing through her letterbox onto the hallway floor.

On looking out the window she then saw to her horror that it was a urinating Everhurst.

Prosecutor Ethan Dighton said the mum dialled 999 and while talking to the operator could hear her former lover still outside, shouting “You're dead” and “You're a wrong'un”.

By the time police arrived, the mechanic had left. But he returned in the early hours of the morning, marching into the house in an “aggressive and confrontational” manner, carrying a can of cider.

He also left his Citroen van in the road outside with the engine running and a door open.

However, on this occasion officers were at the house taking a statement from the victim.

On seeing them, Everhurst took off and, having smashed into a parked car to evade capture, ultimately led police on a “determined and aggressive” chase reaching speeds in excess of 80mph through residential streets all the way to Dartford.

Just a month earlier he had been banned from the road for drug-driving, and was also subject to strict bail conditions imposed as a result of him being reported by the same victim of harassing her in October last year.

The court heard that contact between them had continued after they split up, with Everhurst staying with her “on a casual basis”.

However, he then sent her a number of distressing messages, threatening he wanted to “throw her in the boot” and accusing her of “getting people locked up” when she wanted to move on in relationships.

Then, after a row about money, he arrived at her home to find she had had the locks changed, resulting in him shouting that she was “wicked” and demanding to see his children.

Everhurst, of Saltings Road, Snodland, later pleaded guilty to harassment, threatening behaviour, criminal damage, dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

Philippa Beswick, defending, told the court her client, who has 10 previous convictions for 15 offences, felt “aggrieved” when he was excluded from the family home, having not only been visiting regularly in spite of his bail conditions but also paying off his former girlfriend’s rent arrears and other debts.

Urging the court to spare him jail, the lawyer added that Everhurst would have to “come to terms with how he had behaved in front of his own children”.

I wonder what his mother would have thought as he urinated through the front door…

But Judge Julian Smith was a little more scathing in his criticism.

Blasting Everhurst, who has been in custody on remand since his arrest, the judge said: “What a disgusting, pathetic, childish act.

“I wonder what his mother would have thought as he urinated through the front door and into the hallway in the house in which children lived, his own included.

“What a disgraceful piece of conduct. It’s not adolescent. Adolescents know better than that.”

Jailing Everhurst for a total of 70 weeks, Judge Smith added that the decision to carry on living together after their break-up was not a “sensible” one and had ended “in bitterness and recrimination on his part”.

Referring to a report prepared for the sentencing hearing on Monday (November 11) in which Everhurst was assessed as posing a risk to both his ex-girlfriend and to the public, Judge Smith concluded: “It is clear your offending is such an issue that there must be an immediate custodial sentence.”

Everhurst will be subject to a three-year driving ban on his release, and was also given a five-year restraining order in respect of his former partner.