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

Adam Mitchell McGrath of Crestfield Drive, Whitehall, Dublin 11, pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm and making threats to kill or cause serious harm.