A MAN has been jailed for 26 weeks for visiting his former partner's house on Christmas Day and making copies of explicit photos of her which he then posted online.

Dwight Roberts, 30, sent the woman nine text messages in ten minutes and then sent a further 65 messages including four explicit photographs of her and then rang her a further 29 times.

This was followed by a further 15 calls made to the woman's mobile phone from a withheld number.

Roberts then went round to her home address, kicking at the front door. He was then arrested.

Some of the images he copied were posted on Facebook, including one of a sexual nature, which was posted at 2am on Boxing Day last year. Roberts then sent an SMS message to her at 2.11am on Boxing Day, which said 'It's out'.

He had visited her home in Bradford and looked at images on her phone while it was charging in the kitchen and she was in another room.

Roberts had accessed the phone and taken copies of photos of "an explicit nature" featuring the woman.

All of the incidents took place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day last year.

The woman had been in a relationship with Roberts for seven years before they split up six months before the incident, Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court heard yesterday.

Unemployed Roberts, of Stirling Crescent, Holme Wood, Bradford, pleaded guilty to two charges of harassment without violence and disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.

Alison Whitley, prosecuting, said: "She is scared of him. She feels scared to step out of the house.

"She is always looking over her shoulder. She feels uneasy whenever she is at her home address.

"He put three images on Facebook as he wanted her to feel hurt like he was feeling and wanted to get back at her.

"He wanted to know who the photos had been sent to. He called her a whore and a prostitute."

Deputy district judge Andrew Pascoe also imposed a restraining order until further notice, ordered Roberts to pay an £80 victim surcharge and the forfeiture and destruction of Roberts' phone and its contents.

He told Roberts, who gave no reaction as he was jailed: "This is a most serious offence.

"It's difficult to envisage the anguish she must have had during that day. The photographs were in the social media."

Sarah Guttman, mitigating, said: "He cannot explain what compelled him to look at her phone.

"He was not looking for this type of material but accepts he did want to see her messages.

"He said he lost control of himself. He describes himself as being broken-hearted."