An obsessed fathers’ rights campaigner posted a dead hedgehog through his ex-lover’s letterbox after their relationship ended, a court heard.

Spurned Simon Clayton – who was the centre of an international manhunt after abducting his own daughter – subjected writer Adele Nozedar to an 18-month campaign of harassment.

Magistrates heard how the 49-year-old set up a blog, posting comments about Ms Nozedar. And he ‘tagged’ her over 4,300 times in the rambling, online blog - where he sometimes posts as many as 18 entries a day.