A father-of-two claimed he had special powers and told his estranged wife there was a bomb in her house, a court heard.

Radoslaw Matuszzcyk previously told his wife Malgorzata that he knew how to make explosives.

Then on September 4, he called her and warned: "Get out the house now. There is a bomb inside.

"Leave before 11am. At 11am something really bad will happen. I have a gift where I can see things and predict them."

But his hoax landed him before magistrates in Medway, where he pleaded guilty to breaching an order forbidding him from contacting his ex-partner.

Lorrayne Synmoir, prosecuting, said the victim - who lives in Chatham - initially laughed the claims off.

She asked, "What are you going to achieve with this?" and he replied, "Just get out of the house".

Ms Synmoir added: "He called her again and she immediately called the police.

"Get out the house now. There is a bomb inside. Leave before 11am. At 11am something really bad will happen. I have a gift where I can see things and predict them..." - Radoslaw Matuszzcyk

"She said he had never said anything like this before, it was completely unexpected, but that he had made comments about being able to make a bomb previously in their relationship."

Mrs Matuszzcyk did leave the property, but no suspicious packages were found inside.

The pair were together for 10 years and have two children, but split last year following ongoing domestic abuse.

Matuszzcyk, of Redwall Lane, Linton, Maidstone, admitted breaching a non-molestation order by contacting his wife.

He also confessed to throwing away the phone he used to make the hoax.

Manjit Tesse, defending, said: "This is certainly a worrying case, but it is also quite a sad case.

"You could say this was malicious, you could say this was done as a way to control her, and on the face of it this appears a serious act.

"But this was almost a cry for help, a cry of desperation from a man who has been deprived of regular contact with his children.

"Indeed, the victim found the notion of his special powers to be laughable."

Hilary Noakes, chairman of the bench, said: "Given the seriousness of the circumstances we feel this is not within our sentencing powers."

Matuszzcyk will be sentenced at crown court.