A SPURNED lover who created a fake Facebook account to contact his ex-partner has been jailed for more than two years.

James Casey, who also conned another girlfriend out of a £14,000 BMW which she had bought on finance, breached court orders by trying to contact ex Charlotte Rostron.

He breached a restraining order by sending her messages on Facebook just before Christmas last year, calling her a "twisted cow" but also voicing his intentions to send a cheque to buy Christmas presents for their daughter.

After she did not reply, he created a fake account and contacted her again, before giving a friend of Miss Rostron's money in April last year to pass on to his daughter.

The court heard Casey's relationship with Miss Rostron broke down "because of domestic violence".

Casey, aged 23, admitted the breaches prior to yesterday's hearing at Bolton Crown Court, as well as to burgling a house in Horrocks View, Smithills on May 13 last year.

He stole £15,000 of electrical goods, cash and jewellery in the raid, which the court heard was pre-planned.

Mark Greenway, aged 25, denied his part in the burglary but was convicted after trial. He was also jailed for three years.

The court heard Greenway, of Aldercroft Avenue, Breightmet, acted as a look-out for Casey.

Casey, of Glaister Lane, Breightmet, also previously admitted taking the BMW, worth £13,995, which Judge Stead ruled constituted a breach of trust.

He had promised his then girlfriend, who paid for the car on finance, that he was due compensation, but the money never arrived.

He also told her he had insured it at his father's address which meant it had to be kept there.

The court heard his girlfriend never drove the BMW, and that Casey sold it for £1,500 plus a used Range Rover without her consent.

In the messages sent from the fake Facebook profile, Casey apologised for everything he had done to Miss Rostron, and said she could ring police "if she liked".

When she again did not respond, he called her a "coward" and "lower than the low" but still expressed his love for her.

Nick Ross, defending, said: "Mr Casey wishes to apologise for his behaviour.

"He has recollections from his teenage years of being burgled and having an Xbox stolen so he understands how upsetting it is.

"As far as the future is concerned, he tells me he will never be offending again and he must grow up and prove that."

Casey was given two years for the burglary, eight months for taking the BMW and a concurrent four-month sentence for breaching the restraining order.