Ashley Humphreys bombarded his mother with more than 100 emails and voicemails

A son threatened to slit his mother’s throat because she had him circumcised when he was five, a court was told. Ashley Humphreys had been left traumatised and wanted to know why his parents had agreed to the procedure.

Humphreys, 30, bombarded his mother with more than 100 emails and voicemails between Christmas Day last year and January 5, Kwok Wan, for the prosecution, told Leicester magistrates. In one he said: “I will slit your throats where you stand. Happy new year.”

Mr Wan added that Humphreys went to his mother’s house on New Year’s Eve and threw paint over the front of the house and on the path.

Kim Lee, for the defence, said that only a handful of the messages had been threatening