A WOMAN made more than 15 threatening and abusive phone calls to the same person in one day and more than 26 similar calls to another person in less than a week, a court has heard.

Naomi Little, 18, of Swindon Road, Stratton St Margaret, pleaded guilty to two charges of harassment without violence at Swindon Magistrates' Court.

Prosecutor Pauline Lambert told the magistrates that Little had been the girlfriend of a man whose sister was run over and killed by a lorry.

Little left a number of abusive Facebook messages for the victim, who was the daughter of the lorry driver involved in the accident.

The victim of the calls did not react to the messages but on December 28 she answered a phone call during which Little was abusive and threatened to send travellers to burn her house down.

The victim called the police, after which Little made at least 14 more Facetime calls and several to the victim’s husband.

Little was abusive and abrupt with the police, Miss Lambert said, and told them she did not care if she was arrested.

After the police visit, during which they told Little not to contact the victim again, Little left a message with the victim abusing her for calling "the feds" on her.

The victim told police her father was struggling to deal with the fatal accident and Little had made the struggle far worse.

Miss Lambert also told the court that on December 22 last year Little began six days of phone calls and video contact with the family of her ex-boyfriend, particularly his mother.

In just six days the family received more than 26 calls from Little, Miss Lambert said.

Gordon Hotson, defending, said Little claimed the first victim had for some time been abusive to her and had made derogatory comments about her physical disabilities which she found upsetting.

However, Little accepted her contact with the victim had been excessive.

In the case of the second victim, Mr Hotson said Little had lived at her former boyfriend’s home with his mother and other children and had left a lot of her belongings behind when the relationship ended. The mother flatly refused to let Little have the things back and those that had been returned, such as a photograph of sentimental value, had been damaged.

Little did admit, however, that she made unpleasant and unwarranted calls to the family over a period of about six days.

Mr Hotson said that because of her disabilities she would not be suitable to carry out a sentence of unpaid work.

Magistrates sentenced her to a 12-month community order with a curfew between the hours of 8pm and 8am for eight weeks for each of the charges, to run concurrently. She was also ordered to pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £85.