'I have a knife. I am going to kill you. I want to see you'

A besotted university student threatened to kill her ex-boyfriend whilst calling him 100 times a day in a bid to rekindle their broken romance.

Hope Sheekey, 29, used 12 different phone numbers plus social media to hound her ex over a two month period before she threatened to stab him when he failed to respond.

In a sinister message to him, Sheekey warned: “I have a knife. I am going to kill you. I want to see you.”

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He later contacted police saying he was living in fear he may come across Sheekey armed with a knife whenever he ventures outside his home in Old Trafford. He says he no longer uses the front entrance to the property in case she is there.

At Warrington Magistrates' Court, Sheekey, of Wigan, admitted harassment and was banned from contacting him for 12 months under the terms of a restraining order. She was also fined £266 and ordered to pay £234 costs.

The court heard the harassment began after he ended the couple's relationship over a phone call in October of last year, saying he had 'fallen out of love' with Sheekey.

But in response he was said to have been bombarded with '100s' of messages and phone calls and when he blocked her number, she used numerous unknown and restricted phone numbers to keep contacting him.

Miss Sarah McInerney, prosecuting, said: “She stated that she was coming to Manchester to see him. He told her not to and blocked her number but she received multiple calls from some unknown numbers. There were more than 100 calls on that day.

“In all twelve different numbers were used, including restricted numbers. The defendant also began to contact him on social media, such as Facebook where she