A LEASOWE man abused and threatened his ex-wife and her new lover, made throat-slitting gestures to them and left a threatening note under the windscreen wiper of a car after his hopes of re-marriage were dashed, Wirral magistrates were told.

Solicitor George Sale said 30-year-old Neal Robert Halsall had been re-dating his ex-partner and believed everything was on course for them to re-marry.

But then he was filled with "rage and bitterness" when he discovered his partner had been two-timing. He drank about a dozen pints and then made a nuisance of himself after he came across the other man and followed him to his ex-wife's home.

Halsall, of Ross Avenue, denied pursuing a course of conduct which amounted to harassment but was convicted after trial.

He admitted to police that he made comments "in the heat of the moment" and wrote the note "in anger", but he denied making threats and gestures.

Mr Sale claimed Halsall was more sinned against than sinner and wanted to make his feelings over the situation plain. He had begun to meet difficulties over access to his children.

Halsall was fined £300 plus £100 costs and the magistrates made a six-month restraining order.

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