A 20-year-old Stowmarket man who threatened to beat up his terrified former girlfriend and a neighbour in a telephone call has been locked up for 21 months.

The threatening call put Billy Wilson in breach of a suspended sentence of detention made 13 days earlier for a string offences including robbery, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Wilson, who was living in Hill Rise, Stowmarket, admitted making a malicious communication, criminal damage and breach of an 18 month sentence of detention suspended for 24 months imposed on August 3 for robbery, aggravated vehicle taking and common assault.

Richard Potts, prosecuting, said Wilson’s former partner had received a threatening telephone call from Wilson on August 16 and had gone to a neighbour’s house with her children.

He said: “She was in a panic and her telephone was ringing continuously.”

When the neighbour answered one of the calls Wilson said he was going to smash her door open and wound beat up her and his former partner.

When the neighbour looked out of the window she could see Wilson 40 metres away and called the police.

Wilson was arrested and caused £290 damage to a police cell by defecating and urinating in it.