After learning that her toyboy lover was expecting a kid with her attractive next-door neighbor, a jilted mother launched a foul-mouthed hate campaign.
When Claire Boardman’s live-in boyfriend Stuart Jones, 33, abruptly upped sticks and moved in with the victim, she sent hateful texts to 29-year-old ex-beauty queen Chloe Douglas-Riley.
In a series of messages, Boardman called bar manageress Miss Douglas-Riley a ‘bitch’, a ‘slag’ and a ‘c***’ adding: ‘I’m going to f*** you up, I’m going to kick the s*** out of you’.
She added: ‘You are f***ed and thick, you are being watched now, if I start on you I will not finish, you have f***ed my life up you are going to pay for this’ and ‘You are f***ed’.
Miss Douglas-Riley, a previous Miss Manchester finalist, later told police that Boardman had threatened her with an axe in her back garden, screaming, “I am going to kill you with this.”
Boardman accepted harassment but was cleared of making threats with a bladed article and possessing a bladed article in a public place at Stockport Magistrates Court.
Miss Douglas-Riley, who also owns a dog walking and cleaning business, has subsequently moved on and given birth to a child with Mr Jones.
The duo had become close in the village of Bollington, Cheshire, after Miss Douglas-Riley moved to the street in October 2020, according to the court.
However, trouble began when Jones and Boardman moved into a rented terraced cottage called Toad Hall in December of the following year.
He swiftly captured Miss Douglas-attention Riley’s while they were outside in their adjoining gardens by happenstance.
Boardman is claimed to have yelled comments over their adjoining back yard wall after news of their affair and subsequent pregnancy leaked, stating, ‘Just wait, they are coming for you. You are dead’ and ‘You just wait and see, I’ve ordered it.’
On May 31, Boardman allegedly knocked on Miss Douglas-Riley’s front door and tried to push her way in, threatening to kill her if she didn’t let her in.
Boardman was spotted hacking down bushes in a car park at the back of their houses on June 7 from a bedroom window, swinging an axe while swearing and shouting.
On one of the walls, there was also a huge kitchen knife. Miss Douglas-Riley claimed that when she returned to her yard to smoke an e-cigarette 30 minutes later, Boardman, who was still at the back cutting at the bushes with the axe, scowled at her and threatened her, prompting her to dial 999.
In her evidence Miss Douglas-Riley said: ‘I was terrified. I was totally unaware of what her capability was. I did not know her particularly well and I was very worried.
‘Parking and entering and leaving my premises became quite a concern for myself. It has had a negative effect on my mental health which I struggled with and I was also pregnant at the time.
‘It was just very difficult. I was scared to leave the house. I did not know what she was capable of doing.’
She even refused to accept that Boardman and Jones had been in a relationship adding ‘Having had a conversation with Stuart himself, and multiple of his friends I believe that their relationship was not a cohabiting relationship so to speak. But she did not like the fact that he came and started to see me.’
She claimed she had seen Boardman ‘toing and froing’ as she removed branches from the bushes, shouting and sweating as she was stung by nettles. She then said Boardman saw her and ‘glared’ before saying: ‘I will smash your head in. You, you bitch.’
She told the hearing: ‘I was scared for my life. It had been going on for months.’
In giving her evidence Boardman said she’d met Jones just before Christmas 2020 through mutual friends and that he had been looking for somewhere to stay.
She said: ‘I said he could stay in my spare room for a bit and we ended up together.
‘But it was around March that he told me he was leaving and subsequently moved in next door. I found out via a friend of his who said he wanted to end the relationship. I was upset about it but it was his decision.
‘I was hurt and a bit upset that it was in my face everyday.’
Boardman said when her landlady heard that Jones was living with her, she was issued with an eviction notice and, as a result, had been demanding her make a contribution towards his keep.
She added: ‘I felt used, hurt and angry that I was going to lose my home of many years where I had brought my son up. I admit I was not very nice sending those messages, calling her a slag and other names, but I was angry.
‘I probably did not word them correctly. I was not the kindest but I was getting desperate. I was basically just saying, ‘cough up’ but I was not getting anywhere with it.’
‘I was fighting to keep my home and I was shocked when police came up.’
Boardman was given a two-year conditional discharge and told to pay £129 in costs and a victim surcharge.
Chairman of the bench, Martin Drake said: ‘You have accepted wrongdoing and have shown remorse for that. You admit it in open court that what you did was not very pleasant and you were sorry for it. Before this harassment conviction you were a lady of previous good character. We have taken that into account.’
A restraining order application against Boardman was denied.