A "vindictive" ex-boyfriend made his former partner think he'd shared a topless photo of her on bestiality websites.
"Bitter and angry" Steven Hope threatened to send private photos of the mum to her family after she split up with him.
He photoshopped pictures of her semi-naked with dogs and sent her a disgusting video of a woman having sex with a dog.
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The dad-of-three then set up fake email accounts to bombard his victim with messages - pretending they were from men who had seen her topless online and wanted her to have sex with their dogs.
Hope, 51, of Fincham Road, Huyton, admitted possessing extreme porn and sending an electronic communication of a grossly offensive nature to cause distress at Liverpool Crown Court.
Derek Jones, prosecuting, said the second charge related to essentially "a period of harassment" by Hope after the relationship with the woman - who the ECHO has chosen not to name - ended.
He said: "He then for the next five or six weeks sent her messages which clearly were meant to cause distress or embarrass her."
Mr Jones said Hope referred to "supposed private images taken consensually in the relationship", threatened to send them to her relatives, then emailed the woman a topless photo of her "she feels as if to back up that claim".
He said: "Then perhaps the most distressing aspect was the use of references to bestiality, in particular sexual relations with dogs.
"There was inference in his messages - frequent uses of dog emojis."
Mr Jones said this culminated in two files sent to the victim, one of a "mocked up" image of her topless next to a dog's penis and the second a 50-second long video showing a woman having sex with a dog.
He added: "Not her obviously, nothing to do with her, but clearly again she found it distressing."
Mr Jones said the victim then received emails from fake accounts referring to her liking to have sex with dogs.
He said: "One of the messages said her image with the dog's penis superimposed had been put on a bestiality website."
Mr Jones said: "Upsettingly, one of them made reference to them having three large dogs that would like to meet up with her".
He said: "Initially she thought the image had been posted by the defendant on a website."
However, the court heard the woman spotted spelling mistakes commonly made by Hope in the messages.
Hope - who now says no-one else in fact saw the photos - also sent texts "professing his love for her and saying he would kill himself".
Mr Jones said one contained a threat saying "I will blow your world at Christmas time" and referred to the woman and her family.
The victim described how Hope came to her workplace and tried to kiss her and shouted "c***" at her when she was shopping with her granddaughter.
She initially didn't want to make a statement and asked police to warn Hope to stop, which officers did.
However, he then sent five more emails from fake accounts and was arrested.
Hope confessed when interviewed by the police, telling officers "he felt bitter and angry at the break up".
In a victim statement, the woman said Hope's crimes "left me a shadow of my former self".
She said: "My confidence is shattered. I doubt whether I will ever be able to trust another man."
The woman suffered stress and anxiety, was prescribed medication, but didn't want to leave her home and had to take time off work.
She said: "The photos he referred to are private and never meant for anyone else to see.
"I do not know who Steven has shared these with and the efforts he made to make these vile pictures of me has alarmed me."
Nick Cockrell, defending, conceded his client's actions were "very unpleasant" and in a pre-sentence report he was "perhaps still minimising or downplaying the reasons for his actions".
However, he said Hope was of previous good character and his admissions to police and early guilty pleas indicated he was "remorseful".
Urging the judge to spare his client jail, the barrister said: "He is a man who has had some difficulties in the past... his mother dying some time ago, his father recently being quite poorly.
"He has three grown up children, all from his first marriage, the middle son lives with him and he will be impacted if his father is sent to prison, his eldest son having recently had a very difficult time with the cancer that's referred to in the report, his youngest child suffering from autism, but he sees him every weekend as things stand at the moment.
"So if he's to be sent to prison, that will be felt not just by him of course, but by those close to him."
Judge Denis Watson, QC, told Hope his reaction to the break up was "vindictive and vengeful".
He said: "You effectively tried to keep control over her by telling her that you had private images and you were prepared to send them to members of her family."
The judge told Hope he sent the private image to underline this threat, then "began to taunt her and make reference to bestiality and dogs".
He said Hope suggested he would tell people she had taken part in bestiality and "doctored" photos to underline that threat, before sending the video.
Judge Watson said: "You also set up email accounts in the names of others, which enabled you to continue this taunting and vengeful behaviour by purporting to be people who had come across her image - the image that you had doctored - on bestiality websites."
The judge said Hope did this "so she would be utterly ashamed and feel worthless."
He said it was an aggravating feature that police warned him he was behaving "in a completely vindictive way", but he continued.
Judge Watson said: "These offences have had a huge impact on her. They have changed the way she has lived her life."
He said Hope's children needed his support and he did "much good work for them", but the case was so serious, he must go to prison.
Hope sobbed and wailed as the judge jailed him for six months.
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