The court heard that he cut up her underwear and even took a photo of a blow-up doll wearing her clothes.
He also sent her a list of sexually transmitted infections associated with gay females and told her to get tested.
When he was finally arrested, he admitted to police what he had done but said he was drinking heavily at the time.Mitigating, Michael Morley said: “The tragedy of this case is a man who simply been unable to deal with the breakdown of his 30-year relationship.” He said Turp became depressed and was put on anti-depressants, but “did not give them time to bed in”, and stopped taking them, opting to self medicate with alcohol.Judge Simon Batiste gave him eight months’ jail, suspended for 12 months, and 100 hours of unpaid work.
He warned him: “I hope you can get on with your life. You have got to understand that the relationship is over.”
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