A victim of a jealous lover has been forced to leave her home and change her car after a campaign of threats.

Spencer Ricketts had been in a 12-year relationship with his ex but it ended and she later found a new partner.

But the 50-year-old wouldn't accept the relationship had floundered, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

He bombarded her with text messages, calls and emails - some of them sexual.

Judge David Griffith-Jones QC said Ricketts had subjected the mum-of-three from Kingswood, to "considerable fear and trauma".

The court heard how on numerous occasions he sent images of himself carrying out a sex act on himself with the words: "Look what you are missing".

He also made more than 140 calls to her and her mother and made threats against the victim's new partner.

The victim said that because of the threats she had changed her car and moved away from the area.

"He now accepts the relationship is at an end" - Kerry Waitt

Ricketts, from Southwark in London, told police that he did it "because he hurt"... as he tried to paint himself as the victim, the court heard.

He told police: "She's f**** him (the partner) and now everything is dead."

Kerry Waitt, defending, said: "He now accepts the relationship is at an end."

The judge jailed him for 28 and a half months after he admitted his two-and-a-half week campaign of harassment.

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