Woman threatened to kill former friend during tirade of online abuse on Facebook

Mary Dixon told the woman that she was ‘going to slit her throat and watch her bleed out’ in a barrage of abuse Facebook posts.

Teesside Crown Court heard how the 29-year-old threatened the stamp on her woman’s head and warned her ‘you had better watch out, Mary is about’ during a disturbing case of harassment.

Emma Atkinson, prosecuting, said the defendant had a long history of threatening behaviour with 23 previous convictions for 47 offences going back to 2015, including threats to blow up the victim’s home.

Dixon who has previous convictions for breaching restraining orders and harassment, broke an order banning her from contacting her latest victim and went as far as sending the victim a picture of her own house to warn her she knew where she lived.

The judge heard how the threats went on for several years after the friend blocked her on Facebook after they fell out.

Miss Atkinson said the vile abuse left the victim fearing for her safety and in a victim impact statement, she said ‘she just wants to be left alone’.

She added: "The defendant told her - “I’m going to f***ing kill you. I’m going to come to your house tonight and bomb you.”

in the series of expletive laden social media messages, she also wrote: “You’d better hope the police get to me before I get to you. I’m going to rearrange your jaw and kill you. You should have been shot at birth.”

Dixon, formerly from Stockton but now of Souter View, Whitburn, Sunderland, pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and harassment on November 21, 2021.

John Nixon, mitigating said some of Dixon’s previous victims had not taken the threats seriously but accepted that his client had made ‘idle’ threats to kill but no evidence she ever acted on those threats.

He added: “She intended the victim to believe these threats but it is very different from her going to kill the people concerned.”
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Recorder Aisha Wadoodi said the defendant had targeted at least five other victims and repeatedly harassed them, even telling one woman that she ‘would cut her baby out’.

She said: “I find this case extremely concerning, for the past seven years you have hounded and harassed the victim and I can’t see any reason why you behaved that way.

“You have eight convictions relating to this victim after making repeated threats and harassing her.”

Dixon was jailed for three years.