The former wife of a football coach posted a full English breakfast through his letterbox in a rage over his new girlfriend, a court has heard.

Karen Hall, 40, had hoped to rekindle her marriage with James Hall after he insisted on a "break" after 24 years together.

But the mother-of-three flew into a jealous rage and launched a five-month campaign of harassment against him after he confessed that he had a new girlfriend.

Mrs Hall wept at Stockport magistrates court as she admitted harassment, criminal damage and assault.

The court heard the couple, from Rainow, near Macclesfield, had met when she was 15.

Mrs Hall had stuck by her husband when he was jailed for three years for his involvement in a £3.4m cigarette smuggling racket.