An obsessive man who put a woman in fear when he repeatedly breached a restraining order has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Andrejs Kabutavics travelled to Trowbridge from his home in Scotland to make threats to his victim and her family.

The 32-year-old even managed to get online to a holiday booking the woman and her sister had made to change their meals on the plane.

Charles Thomas, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how Latvian Katubavics and the woman had met on a dating website for Russians in the UK.

After spending a weekend together he returned to his home in Scotland and she told him she did not want a relationship.

However he bombarded her with Facebook messages then travelled down and smashed her front door.

After being convicted of harassment and criminal damage magistrates imposed a restraining order banning him from Wiltshire or from contacting her.

But he kept bothering her on Facebook, creating new accounts to continue the contact after she blocked him.

In August he appeared outside her house after she had gone to work and sent her a photo of her front door with his car in the frame to prove he was there.

The messages became more sinister as he threatened to kill her mother, saying he knew where she worked.

He also threatened her and made various sexually derogatory remarks before altering the holiday booking.

Kabutavics, of Kirkcaldy, Fife, admitted six breaches of the order but pleaded not guilty to a seventh and a charge of harassment by stalking over the same six month period.

The court was told that he had been jailed in his homeland in November 2012 for similar matters.

Lucy Wright, defending, said there had been no physical contact with the victim and that he no longer wanted any contact with her.

Jailing him Judge Peter Blair QC said: "The victim explains in her statements how she is depressed, she struggles to sleep, she has nightmares, she can't relax and does not feel safe in her own home.

"She is afraid that you will damage her property or herself when she is asleep. You threats have made her fearful of driving.

"She is fearful of meeting new people and she fears for her life when you get released from prison because of the sorts of threats you have been making.

"Your barrister asks me to accept that you intend to reform and that that is a genuine statement by you. That you are hard working and there is a real prospect of you being rehabilitated.

"I have very severe doubts about that, not only because of this lengthy campaign that you undertook against her ignoring the orders of the courts this year but because there is a history of threatening behaviour from your offending in Latvia also.

"I am afraid I do not accept the suggestion that we need have no further fear about your contacting this woman.

"I have no doubt that it is correct to describe you as a man with completely distorted thinking in which you become obsessive about this woman resulting in you making serious threats of violence."

He also imposed a lifelong restraining order banning him from contacting her.