Jail for ex who sent pig’s head
A WOMAN who sent her ex-boyfriend a pig’s head during a stalking campaign was jailed yesterday.
Tia McBean became pregnant during a relationship with Oralton Robinson.
But after they split up McBean, 33, bombarded him and his long-term partner with more than 100 phone calls a day and sent takeaway pizzas to their home.
Woolwich Crown Court heard that on February 25 last year McBean, of New Cross, south London, sent a pig’s head to the restaurant run by Mr Robinson’s partner.
She sent Facebook messages to regular customers too, falsely claiming she had seen a man carrying out a sex act in a cook pot.
McBean, jailed for 15 months, admitted breach of a restraining order, criminal damage, stalking and sending malicious communications.
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