He dumped her - she really didn't take it well

A scorned girlfriend who threatened to post her ex-lover's naked pictures on Instagram and branded him as a cocaine addict to his workplace has been slapped with an £80 fine. Megan Griffiths, 20, blamed her behaviour on social media and said it allowed her to carry "impulsive" hate crimes on her former partner online.

Griffiths began her eighty day campaign of harassment by bombarding her victim with hundreds of texts and WhatsApp messages after he ended their three year relationship. Griffiths vowed to put intimate images of her 22-year old former lover on her social media pages and said she would slash the tyres on his car with a knife and submitted an online form to his employers falsely telling them that he snorted cocaine.

She also sent her former boyfriend online messages by using 1p transfers to his Monzo bank account begging him to contact her and she repeatedly rang him using her own phone number, fake numbers, private numbers and withheld numbers.

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At Warrington magistrates court, Griffiths a care home cleaner, faced up to a year in jail under sentencing guidelines after she pleaded guilty to stalking, threatening to disclose images of a person in an intimate state and threatening to damage property.

But she walked free after her lawyer said she was young and impulsive, ''malleable'' and could be ''reprogramed.'' On top of her fine Griffiths was also ordered to complete 20 days of rehabilitation activity and pay £199 in costs and victim surcharge. She was also handed a 12-month restraining order banning her from contacting the victim.

Her lawyer Ian Weights said: “Without trying to sound a little out of touch I find that people