A SPURNED man who subjected his former partner and her parents to six months of torment has been told to see a psychiatrist.

Judge Raymond Bennett asked for medical reports on Patrick Feeney, 38, after he had been told how Feeney attacked his then girlfriend Louise Todd, made threats and menacing phone calls and made her family's life hell.

Feeney, said to have declared he was the top man in Colne left Miss Todd's mother -- whose throat he had said he would cut -- on medication and her father suffering from stress and paranoid about his family's safety. Judge Bennett adjourned sentence until next January 3 and remanded the defendant in custody.

He said he wanted help with any future risk Feeney may pose.

Feeney, of Sheridan Road, Laneshawbridge, who told the judge he had been on medication for the last six six years, had earlier admitted damaging property, common assault, using the public telecom system to send menacing messages, three counts of breaching a restraining order and possessing amphetamine and cannabis.

He had been committed for sentence by the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Magistrates.

Chris Godfrey, prosecuting, said the defendant's nine-month relationship with Miss Todd was ended by her in January and she decided to leave the home they shared in Colne.

Feeney demanded her jewellery, said he was going to smash her car up, locked the front door and threw her all over the room.

They tussled, and he told her she wasn't going anywhere and slashed her car tyres.

She left as Feeney, who had told her she deserved everything she got, was sleeping and she drove to a friend's despite the fact all her tyres were deflated and her windscreen smashed. The next day the defendant turned up at Miss Todd's parents' home, demanded to be let in, slung her clothes over the lawn and threatened to return and put the windows through.

Mr Godfrey said after that Feeney made repeated phone calls to Miss Todd and claimed he would inflict nine months of torture on her. He threatened to torch her home, rang up in the early hours and sneered, down the line. Feeney also threw rubbish on Miss Todd's garden and asked her how she liked her pressie, and sent his ex a card, saying good girls shouldn't mess with bad boys, and signed it all my love.

Mr Godfrey said that, in February, the defendant was made the subject of a restraining order, but trouble continued. Feeney made Miss Todd's family's life hell.

When arrested, the defendant said words to the effect of: "What restraining order?"