A gambler threatened to stab his former partner and burn her house down in the face of a court order.
Charles Stone, 22, split from his partner after a one-year relationship and was given a “non-molestation order” by Middlesbrough County Court.
Since the three-year order was granted in April last year, the couple continued to have an on-off relationship, Teesside Crown Court was told.
He kept asking the woman for money to spend at the bookies’ in Redcar on February 13.
He sent her to the bank and to her home for cash and took her iPhone as “collateral” or “ransom”, said prosecutor John Gillette.
He got angry and argued with her after he found a man’s name in her phone contact list.
He used his own phone to smash her back driver’s side window as she drove away from him, leaving the phone in the car.
Four days later he was abusive and threatened her over the phone: “I’m going to stab you up. I’m going to burn your house down.”
He found her in the Majuba Road car park, shouted abuse and punched the car’s back window and passenger door, leaving two dents.
He jumped on her car bonnet before moving out of the way for her to drive off.
In police interview he tried to blame her, claiming she drove at him and tried to run him over.
Stone, of Charlotte Street, Skelton, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage and two of breaching the non-molestation order.
Jonathan Walker, defending, said the relationship was now over.
He said Stone showed candour and was a productive hard worker, employed with Cleveland Cables in the 2012 London Olympics, and he hoped to move away from Teesside to work.
Judge Howard Crowson told Stone: “The courts make orders. They are meant to be obeyed.
“In this case it seems there’s been mutual ignorance of the law. You then behaved in an appalling manner.
“It was a pretty ugly scene on each occasion.”
Stone was given a 10-month prison sentence suspended for a year with supervision and a “Building Better Relationships” programme.
He was given a restraining order banning him from harassing, communicating or interfering with, or threatening violence to the victim, or going within 100m of her home or workplace.
He was also ordered to pay £1,000 costs.
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