A stalker who pursued a six-year campaign of threats and intimidation against women he found online will be detained in a psychiatric hospital after admitting harassment.
Jason Smith, 28, was arrested after terrorising women whom he bombarded with text messages, phonecalls and threats of violence.
A hearing at Manchester Crown Court was told that Smith - whom prosecutors say suffers from mental illness - sent incessant messages to a 21-year-old Sarah Brett, whom he had never met face-to-face.
In one incoherent message he appeared to threaten the sleeping woman with throwing bricks through her window as punishment for upsetting him.
It said: 'Bricks going to go through your window in about two minutes, if you don’t wake up going to smash - watch, you f****d my head up.' [sic]
Another said: 'I’m going to smash in your head myself and going to love it'.
He later sent similarly demanding messages to one of her friends.
Smith wrote: 'Anwer ya phone now', followed by 'Am gonna slap ya fat wrinkly mum... an smash her car up if Sarah doesn't ring tonight.' [sic]
He also created fake Facebook accounts in Miss Brett's name and posted spiteful updates about her mother.
Smith would call as often as 300 times a day and sent her more than 200 threatening texts, the court heard.
When she refused to meet, ignored his calls and changed her phone number, Smith instead began pursuing her friend.
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