The court heard that the 22-year-old man threatened to kill the woman if she went to the police and also stole items from the flat.
He had climbed through a window into her home on 3 February following the collapse of their relationship the previous month.
On Friday the defendant was jailed for two years after he admitted illegally entering the woman’s home and stealing items including phones, keys and bank cards before using her pin number to withdraw £340 from a cash machine.
• Full report in today’s JEP
