A Dundee businessman told his ex-wife he had deadly poison ricin during a stalking campaign lasting almost a decade.
Gloucester Crown Court heard obsessed Stuart Innes had never been able to deal with the break up of his marriage and believes his wife cheated him out of his interest in their care home business and their £700,000 home in England.
The 51-year-old was jailed for the eleventh time on Thursday after waging a ceaseless campaign of harassment against her and her divorce lawyer.
The court heard the engineer – who once doused himself in petrol and threatened to set himself alight – had harrassed his ex-wife since 2007.
Innes, of Dallfield Court in the Hilltown, was jailed for 16 months after he admitted six charges of breaching a restraining order by texting, emailing, phoning and Facebook messaging his former wife Rachel and Gloucester solicitor Paul Griffin.
Prosecutor Giles Nelson told the court that Innes texted his ex-wife on April 25 saying he was going to end his life unless she phoned or texted him back that night. He told her he had capsules of the deadly drug ricin.
She reported his message to Gloucestershire police and officers in Dundee went to his home to check on him, finding him fit and well.
Judge Michael Cullum told Innes: “This is the 19th court appearance by you – your first was in 2007. The entirety of your convictions is self inflicted by your flagrant disregard of court orders.
“Yours has been described as a sad case. But it is not for you that the word sad should be reserved. It is sad for the people who deserve the protection of the court and the restraining order it has imposed.”
Innes had asked his ex-wife for money so he could start a business.
Other contact followed on April 30 and May 2.
On May 4 Gloucestershire police travelled to Dundee and arrested him at his home.
Stephen Ritter, defending, said: “I have told him to step back from it because he is going nowhere. He has now spent five years in prison over this.
“He has got a mother of 80 and a brother of 57 in Dundee.
