TEENAGER JAILED FOR SENDING NEARLY 130 THREATENING MESSAGES AND ONLINE HARASSMENT
A teenager who bombarded a woman with nearly 130 threatening messages and threatened to distribute intimate pictures of her online has been jailed.Connor Patterson, 19, formerly of Newcastle Avenue in Worksop, repeatedly contacted the victim against her wishes as well as threatening violence.
He sent her a total of 127 threatening and abusive messages, causing her significant distress.
Patterson pleaded guilty to putting a person in fear of violence through harassment and threatening to distribute private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress.
He was locked up for two years for the harassment offence and handed a six-month sentence, to be served concurrently, for the other charge when he was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, November 3.