Overview
- Newcastle Crown Court jailed Jenna Thompson, 40, for 40 months after she admitted blackmail.
- Between November 2023 and July 2024, the victim made 87 transfers totaling £23,446 and was left with 16p by September 2024.
- Thompson posed as a man and later his son using a burner phone, sending threats and images of a crossbow and grenades with talk of a new shooter.
- The messages threatened visits to the victim’s home and workplace and damage to cars and windows, which the judge said the victim reasonably believed.
- The court imposed a restraining order and set Proceeds of Crime proceedings, a process used to recover money made through crime.