A man has been jailed for threatening to rape a teenage girl and encouraging her to self-harm.
Shabaz Khokar, 24, threatened the victim in Staffordshire over social media, attaching images of train tickets he had purchased to travel to her home.
Police were alerted to the threat, and Khokar was arrested at a Staffordshire railway station in August.
Khokar was released on conditional bail, but proceeded to send further messages to the victim telling her to self-harm, and demanding she drop the case against him.
He was arrested a second time and later charged.
Khokar, of Greenwich, admitted several offences at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday and was imprisoned for two years and five months.
The offences included: sending communication threatening death or serious harm; encouraging or assisting serious self-harm by another; and committing an act with intent to pervert the course of justice.
Khokar was also served with an indefinite restraining order against the victim as part of his sentence.
According to Staffordshire Police, the case marked the first sentencing for the force under section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
The legislation introduced a number of new offences, which included encouraging or assisting serious self-harm, cyberflashing, sending false information intended to cause non-trivial harm, threatening communications, intimate image abuse and epilepsy trolling.
The new legislation came into effect in January 2024.
