A spurned boyfriend has been jailed for trashing his partner's home and telling her on Facebook "You won't be pretty for much longer".
Lewis Nevard ripped up personal documents and left paper scattered around the floor and bundled ex partner Holly Poullier's clothes into rubbish bags and left it outside.
He stole jewellery and passports belonging to her and her family and made a series of threats by phone, text and Facebook, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Nevard, aged 25, of Batson Gardens, Paignton, admitted harassment, theft, and criminal damage and was jailed for 18 months by Judge Francis Gilbert, QC.
He was also banned from contacting the victim or her family or from entering Devon.
The judge told him:"You have a long criminal record including the assault and harassment of you ex partner. What you did here amounted to the trashing of her home, scattering paperwork around and pulling out drawers.
"You stole clothing which you left in bags outside. You were bailed, and contacted her in breach of the bail conditions and left threatening and intimidating messages on her phone and on Facebook over several weeks."
Mr Greg Richardson, prosecuting, said Miss Poullier was away from her home in McKay Avenue, Torquay, in April 2013 when Nevard went there with a friend and ransacked the house.
Her brother Thomas found them in the process of raiding the house and recovered most of the clothes from bin bags but found other property missing.
He said the stolen items were worth £2,300 and included a Gucci watch worth £750, a diamond engagement ring belonging to the victim's grandmother, and other jewellery.
Mr Richardson said:"He was bailed by police and started sending a catalogue of threatening messages. They were abusive and described her as dumb, crazy and stupid.
"One said that he swore on the life of his daughter she would not be pretty for much longer."
Miss Kellie Enever, defending, said Nevard now accepts the best way of resolving disputes over contact with his two-year-old daughter was through the family courts.
She said he did not intend to cause a lot of damage at the house and had torn up papers and documents.
She said many of his problems in the past were caused by a £500 a week cocaine habit and he accepted he had acted like a hothead.
