By Ashley McInally

A STUDENT who bombarded an ex partner and her mother with catalogue of vile messages and pictures including threats to rape them has been spared jail.

Christopher Lyons, 24, sent indecent images to his girlfriend’s 48-year-old mum when she was on holiday.

After being dumped, sick Lyons sent a string of vile messages on Facebook to the pair using different accounts.

One message to the woman said: “You should be so afraid or very excited because you are going to be raped and videod and I will do the same thing to that pretty young daughter of yours.”

Lyons, from Maryhill, Glasgow, pled guilty to two charges under the Sexual Offences Scotland Act of sending sexual written communication without their consent between September and October 2015.

Today at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Lyons was given a community payback order with a number of conditions including two years supervision, 200 hours of unpaid work and to go on a sexual offenders course.

Sheriff Ian Fleming also put him on the sex offenders’ register and granted an indefinite non-harassment order preventing him contacting either woman.

Passing sentence, sheriff Fleming told him “Your behaviour was intrusive and threatening and escalated after you had been confronted and apologised.

“What concerns me, not only did your behaviour escalate it did so in a devious fashion by setting up false Facebook accounts - you were 22 not 16.”

The court previously heard Lyons - now in full time employment - was in a relationship with a 22-year-old at the time and had met her mum.

While his girlfriend was on holiday, Lyons sent an explicit text to her mum followed by an apology message claiming it was for the wrong person.

The woman thought it was for her daughter but received more texts which included her name.

Procurator fiscal depute Harry Findlay said: “These were followed by a number of text messages from the accused apologising and asking her not to tell her daughter.”

When the girl returned around a week later and heard about the messages, she confronted Lyons who apologised but she dumped him.

The following day she found messages on her mum’s Facebook account from a person in the called Chris Kim that were explicit.

In January 2016 he was detained and made a mostly ‘no comment’ interview but claimed he was “not good with computers and had trouble setting up his own Facebook account”.

Not guilty pleas to charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by repeatedly threatening to rape the women was accepted by prosecutors.