A man who threatened to blow up vehicles at a hospital, and harassed a woman with demands for sex before posting an indecent video of her online, has narrowly avoided jail.

Daniel Bice initially had an intimate relationship with the victim for just three days in September 2013.

At the time, she consented to the 29-year-old taking videos of them having sex.

But magistrates heard that when she was reluctant to continue the relationship, Bice sent her 28 text messages demanding she sleep with him and threatening to put the footage online.

She asked him to leave her alone, and he subsequently he posted an 18-second clip on YouTube.

Bice, of Cavell Way, Sittingbourne, was charged with harassment and pleaded guilty in October 2013.

"If you walk back through this door (into the court) again, you will go straight to prison" - Magistrate Jean Sanderson, at a previous court hearing

But by the time he appeared before Maidstone magistrates to be sentenced for this and other offences, their relationship was back on.

Mary Dinan, defending, said the victim was now very close to him and depended on him, describing Bice as “her diamond”.

The woman had a history of self-harming and suicidal tendencies, but since she established a permanent relationship with Bice in April 2014, her condition had improved.

“This is very much a relationship she wants to continue,” said Miss Dinan.

Paul Edwards, prosecuting, informed magistrates he had also recently spoken to the victim and been told the same thing, which was why he was not making a request for a restraining order.

Bice also admitted making a threatening phone call to Bethlem Hospital, in Beckenham, threatening to blow up vehicles parked there.

At the time, his partner was a patient there receiving treatment for her mental health problems and he was concerned she was not receiving proper treatment, said his defence.

Bice had been placed in care at the age of two, because his mother had serious drug problems.

As a result of his upbringing, he had a lack of self-control and problems containing his anger, said Miss Dinan.

That also accounted for two offences of causing criminal damage to police cells at Medway and Margate while in custody, which he admitted, and a third offence of criminal damage at a police cell in Canterbury, which he asked to be taken into consideration. He also admitted failing to answer bail.

Bice, who had 27 previous convictions, had most recently appeared before Canterbury Crown Court in December where he was given a six-month sentence suspended for two years for offences of theft and burglary.

Magistrates ordered Bice to pay £100 compensation for each of the three cases of criminal damage and gave him another suspended sentence, for 161 days, suspended for 24 months.

The chairman of the bench, Jean Sanderson, told Bice it was his last chance.

“If you walk back through this door (into the court) again, you will go straight to prison,” she said.