The 24-year-old man also threatened to publish intimate images of the then 20-year-old woman, and at one point, when she managed to move out of the house eight months later, he sent her almost 5,000 text messages over a four-day period

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, posted a video of four pictures on a loop, one of which showed his former wife in a swimsuit on a beach with her face distorted.