A Worksop man who angrily flouted court orders by stalking his ex-partner with emails, letters and demands for cash has been spared a prison sentence, a court heard.

Martyn Ridley bombarded his victim with emails, and asked: “Do you think I am f****** stupid?” before turning up and barging into her home, said Jill McIlroy, prosecuting.

But after he returned a second time and tried to get inside he was arrested on August 3.

He admitted breaching a non-molestation order made on November 25, 2025, and his phone showed he’d sent 20 emails and called her 20 calls over the previous four days.

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He demanded to “know the truth” and threatened to post about their issues on Facebook.

Ridley was on bail when he posted letters by hand on September 4 and 7, demanding a car back and claiming she owed him £32,000.

“I am scared of what he might do,” she said in a statement. “I just need him to stop. I feel like I am being punished for not wanting to be with him anymore.”

Ryan Higginbotham, mitigating, said Ridley, who has no previous convictions, took full responsibility for his actions, and there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation.

Being detained overnight by police demonstrated to him “how seriously breaches of these orders are taken," he said.

Ridley was wrongly advised by a solicitor friend but also showed “a degree of naivety,” Mr Higginbotham added.

The 43-year-old, of Back Park, Worksop, admitted stalking and breaching a non-molestation order, at Nottingham Magistrates Court.

On Wednesday, October 21, he received a 16-week sentence, suspended for 12 months, with probation requirements. A three-year restraining order was also imposed.