A serving prisoner who made threats against a former partner in an attempt to make her los her job as an estate agent has had more time added to his jail term.

Terence Wayne Perkins, already serving 24 weeks’ jail for inflicting actual bodily harm on his mother, with a restraining order, admitted sending the estate agent a text message threatening her, thereby causing harassment, alarm or distress.

Perkins, of Green Street in Ryde, Isle of Wight, phoned the victim as she was about to meet a client at a property viewing back in April.

He told her: “I’m going to ruin your life and lose you your job. I’m going to smash the windows of the office.”

According to Ann Smout, prosecuting, at the Isle of Wight Magistrates’ Court, he sounded aggressive and the agent “feared he would carry out his threat”.

In the victim’s statement, she said: “I want him to leave me alone so I can live my life. I’ve told him many times to keep away, but he ignores me.”

Perkins’ legal representative, James Cameron, described his client as a chronic alcoholic.

He said: “He accepts his behaviour was wrong and apologises for the distress he caused.

“If he keeps committing these types of offences, he’ll be in and out of jail.”

Magistrates handed Perkins six weeks’ imprisonment, to run consecutively to his current jail term, with £85 costs and a £128 victim surcharge.