In one message he threatened to cut off her head. File image. Photograph: Dave Meehan
A man who moved into his partner’s home within weeks of first meeting her and forced her younger brother to move out has been jailed for two years for coercively controlling the woman, threatening to kill her and assault.
The man (24) also threatened to publish intimate images of the woman, who was 20, and at one point, when she managed to move out of the house eight months later, he sent her almost 5,000 text messages over four days.
Most these messages were abusive and threatening. These included a threat to cut her head off and one to “show the whole of Facebook” her private parts.
He had previously
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