A MAN who sent an ex-girlfriend more than 40 unwanted messages in a single night has received a two-year community punishment.

She was the second former partner Wayne Alan Jackson, 29, had harassed after their relationship had broken up and his second conviction for harassment in two years, York Magistrates Court heard.

Defence solicitor John Howard said Jackson is now in a relationship with a third woman who lives in his area.

District judge Adrian Lower told Jackson: “You have not yet learnt your lesson thoroughly. At the age of 29, it is time you grew up and learnt life isn’t always kind.”

Jackson, of Foxwood Lane, Acomb, pleaded guilty to harassment from January 29 to October 17. He was ordered to do a two-year community order with 150 hours’ unpaid work, a rehabilitative course about how to conduct relationships and 20 days’ rehabilitative activities.

He was also made subject to a restraining order banning him indefinitely from going near the girlfriend he sent the sexual letters to and going into the street where she lives.

He is already subject to a different restraining order in relation to his first girlfriend.

Ms Katherine Schofield, prosecuting, said one of his messages to his second girlfriend included: “you owe me a baby”.

He had told police he sent the 40 plus messages in a night after he had been told by another person that she had been to his address with a child and had assumed that she had wanted to resume contact.

However, the victim had not been to his house. She had previously told him not to contact her and wanted nothing to do with him.

Mr Howard said Jackson found it difficult to accept relationship break-ups.