An abuser jailed for violently attacking his former partner continued to harass her from his Norwich prison cell.
Adrian Brooks, 47, was sentenced for two and a half years for causing actual bodily harm, stalking and intentional strangulation.
While in HMP Norwich he sent the woman letters pleading to get back together in breach of a restraining order.
Norwich Crown Court was told he also admitted that just a week after his release he had also sent the woman’s son a series of Facebook messages.
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In a statement read in court the woman said: “It’s unsettling that he has drawn my mother and son into this.
“The scars on my face that I see every time I look in the mirror are a reminder of what he has done to me.”
Brooks, who now lives in Ipswich but previously lived in Dereham, had been deemed an “imminent risk” to his ex.
Stephen Mather, mitigating, said: “He now realises the error of his ways.”
Recorder Fitches said she had been persuaded to suspend a 16-month sentence for two years because he was the carer for his 81-year-old mother.
She ordered the restraining order remain in force.
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