A mum who turned down a particularly unromantic and strange proposal has spoken out how her jilted ex-lover devastated her life in a matter of months after advertising her on a swinging website.

After a brief courtship between November 2021 and January 2022, Ian Blackburn proposed to Louise McManaman from Rainford, Merseyside, by scrawling the big question out on a bedsheet tied to a traffic sign on the busy East Lancs Road. Louise declined and ended the relationship.

What followed was months of stalking, reports Liverpool Echo, which led to Louise removing her business from the internet and putting her house on the market so to distance herself from her ex-partner.

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Blackburn then proceeded to stalk and list Louise's information on a website called 'Fab Swingers' which led to her receiving a number of explicit images from strangers, Liverpool Magistrates Court was told on Wednesday, February 8.

Louise told the paper: "It started last year when I had a short relationship with him. I'm a dog groomer and I started seeing him. [After the break up] there was the bed sheet proposal on the East Lancs. Then, because I said no, there was a series of attacks on me, my daughter and my business.

"There were nails on my drive, stalking my house in the early hours, people following me, he would wait on his motorbike watching me. 40-60 attempts to book in different dogs to be groomed.

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"He had my business on a swingers website. I was getting people coming to my door asking for sexual favours."

Blackburn, 62, pleaded guilty to stalking involving serious alarm or distress and earlier this week he was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months and was given a 10-year restraining order too.

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As district judge Wendy Lloyd sentenced him, she labelled his actions those of a "jilted 12-year-old" who had become "obsessed" with his ex.

Blackburn was also told he must attend a building better relationships programme, 15 rehabilitation sessions and 200 hours of unpaid work.

The court heard that Louise was forced to list her home on the market and relocate her business after living in fear.

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Although the defence claimed Blackburn was remorseful for his actions and willing to work with the rehabilitation service, Louise has spoken out about how the months that followed her ending the relationship saw her living in fear.

She said: "I've been living in fear for a year and it has been hard. You're just living in downright fear. It's almost destroyed my life and I just want justice for what he has done to me. [People] should know what he has done."

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