A MAN who is accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend sent a hoax bomb threat to two airports which purported to be from her, a jury has been told.

Russel Luke Zoryk allegedly set up a Twitter account using the woman’s name to send a message to Durham Tees Valley and Newcastle International Airport which stated: “Thought #parisattacks were bad, wait for my luggage gifts. Death to the infidels. #allahackbar #ISIS”

He pleads not guilty to communicating false information in a tweet on November 19, 2015 and is on trial at Teesside Crown Court.

The 25-year-old denies two counts of stalking the complainant and another woman between May 2014 and November 2015 by sending social media posts and causing messages to be sent that purported to originate from them.

He also denies sending a noxious substance by post to a home in Middlesbrough in June 2014 and three counts of intimidation, which the prosecution say is in relation to threatening e-mails he sent two female detectives investigating the complaints against him.

Zoryk’s former partner, who gave evidence from behind a screen, explained how they met through a mutual friend while both were university students in the North-East.

They began a relationship in 2010 and shared a home with other students.

However when she graduated in 2013 she said it was agreed that it was best to break the relationship off because of the distance between their respective family homes.

The woman said it “felt mutual” and also revealed how they remained Facebook friends.

She described how subsequently she was harassed through her Tumblr social networking account with messages including “Bitch, bitch, bitch” and talk of “barbed wire on private parts”.

Prosecutor Nicholas Lumley asked the complainant about various e-mail messages she apparently sent to Zoryk, of Muirfield Drive, Derby, after the end of their relationship.

This included one in which the sender criticised the police investigation and said: “We can hang out and play games after this is over”.

But the woman denied the messages were hers.

The Recorder of Middlesbrough, Judge Simon Bourne-Arton told jurors the issue they had to determine was who sent the various messages to either the individual concerned or the organisation involved.