A man who lived in a derelict bus for seven years said he wanted his step-daughter's murderer to hang himself.
Dean Jones, of Murcott, near Bicester, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday, May 14 following his comments to the murderer.
The 54-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of sending a message threatening death to Christopher Blakeley about his brothers Jake and Ben Blakeley.
This took place on September 29 last year.
Jones's stepdaughter Jayden Parkinson was murdered in 2013 at the age of 17 by Ben Blakeley, who strangled her to death while she was pregnant with his child before digging up his uncle’s grave and dumping her body in it.
Ben Blakeley, a former binman, was found guilty of murder at Oxford Crown Court in July 2014 and was sentenced to life in prison, to serve a minimum of 20 years.
Jones appeared in the dock at Oxford Crown Court dressed in motorbike leathers.
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Judge Michael Roques said: "I understand the reason behind the threat. Ben Blakeley is serving a life sentence for the murder of your step-daughter in 2013.
"You said you wanted to kill him and his brother Jake. You sent a Facebook message to a third brother Christopher Blakeley, threatening to kill Ben and Jake and said they should hang themselves.
"You have said to police a number of times you want to kill them. This court has every sympathy for why you feel that way.
"The threats really have to stop. I'm sure the last thing your daughter would have wanted is for you to be before the courts."
Jones was given a 12-month community order. This includes six months of mental health rehabilitation, six rehabilitation activity requirement days and a £50 fine.
He was also given a restraining order to not contact all three brothers for 10 years.
Blakeley's five-week trial began on June 23, 2014, and was marked by regular outbursts from the man whose relationship with Jayden was described as violent, controlling and obsessive.
After Jayden had separated from him, she discovered that she was pregnant, and Judge Patrick Eccles said in his 2014 closing remarks that she went to meet Blakeley to persuade him about her condition which he was sceptical of.
He said: “There you strangled her to death in a jealous rage and in doing so gave no thought to the possibility that she might indeed have been carrying your child.
“You created a web of lies about where she might be, accompanied by obscene imprecations that you did not care where she was and that she meant nothing to you.
“It required a heart of stone to keep up that pretence, and a heart of stone as well to deal with her body in the way you did.”
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