A SPURNED lover who spread malicious lies about his partner having Aids is today behind bars.

In revenge for being dumped, former ambulance worker John Mills, 62, launched a campaign of harassment and abuse by letter, phone calls, texts and emails.

The Eastleigh man even threatened suicide after the one-month relationship hit the rocks and took to sneaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home when she was out and doing her washing.

It was when she asked for his key back he contacted her bosses and claimed she had the killer disease.

As reported by the Daily Echo at an earlier hearing before Fareham magistrates he pleaded guilty to harassing his former partner between September and October last year.

The court heard the pair met when Mills joined a dance class after returning from some time in Afghanistan.

He won the 56-year-old’s heart by showering her with gifts and helping her with jobs around her Bishop’s Waltham home.

However, the relationship was moving too fast for her and when he wanted to move in the university lecturer called things off.

Unable to accept the rejection Mills pestered her by phone and sent a barrage of “upsetting” messages.

He then called her employer and said he had been in a relationship with her and found out she might have HIV or Aids.

He told them he feared she might be a carrier and was angry with her for throwing his life in turmoil while he waited for the results of his tests.

His victim denies having the infection.

The court heard how Mills was cautioned last July for a similar offence with another woman he met at a dance class.

He has also been issued with harassment warnings in relation to two other women.

At Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court, Judge Anthony Calloway said the crime was “very serious”

and he sentenced Mills to three months in prison.