A FOUL-mouthed misogynist has been banned from contacting his ex-partner after he bombarded her with abusive messages.

Christopher Kelly repeatedly called the woman a whore and slag and told her he hoped she would be gang raped.

She believed he was trying to find her when she went out and feared he would turn up at her home after he telling her ‘I’m on my way, you’re ****ing dead meat’.

He left her alone for seven months after being arrested but within days of being charged by police he contacted her again with more threats and abuse.

The woman said she was terrified by his campaign of hate and harassment, which carried on despite her changing her mobile number and trying to block his calls.

Kelly, aged 55, of West Golds Way, Newton Abbot, admitted two counts of sending malicious communications and was jailed for 36 weeks, suspended for two years by Recorder Mr Mathew Turner at Exeter Crown Court.

He imposed two-year restraining order which bans Kelly from any sort of contact with the victim and ordered him to attend a 30 session building better relationships course and a six month alcohol treatment programme.

He told him: ‘The messages can properly be described as vile verbal abuse which must have caused her substantial distress and fear for her safety.’

Miss Felicity Payne, prosecuting, said the abusive messages started after Kelly’s partner ended a turbulent on-off three year relationship in June 2021.

He ignored her requests to leave her alone and called her 150 times a day, becoming hostile when she refused to speak or blocked his calls. He called her names including ‘bin-dipping slag’.

Bin-dipping is a term of abuse sometimes applied to people from Manchester or Liverpool. Other messages told her she was a sex worker who should be gang-raped.

He accused her father of being a paedophile and urged her to kill herself. He threatened to confront her saying ‘you dirty whore, you will be visited’ and telling her she was ‘dead meat’.

The transcripts of his abusive texts and voicemails ran to 52 pages.

Kelly broke off contact after being arrested in mid July 2021 but messages started again after he was charged by police in February this year.

Miss Payne said: ‘These were attacks based on gender and sent as a form of punishment and revenge.’

Mr Sam Wysocki, defending, said Kelly’s actions were impulsive and most of the messages were sent when he was drunk.

He now accepts he is an alcoholic who needs help.

He said Kelly would benefit from working with probation to change his attitude towards women and is willing to address this issue.