A spurned woman who launched a campaign of racist harassment of a man and his family has been spared jail.

Amandeep Mudhar and a friend threatened to have the man, his sisters and mum raped and also to blow up their home and cars.

Even though she had been made subject to an injunction to keep her away from the Hindu victims, she repeatedly breached the court order.

And the 26-year-old Sikh carried out a campaign of abuse on social media as well as making hundreds of vile phone calls.

Sue Cavender, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court Mudhar had the brief relationship, which was 'never fully intimate' over a few weeks in 2012.

Because of their cultural differences he made it clear there was no chance of anything developing between them, she said.

Soon after, he received a call from her dad claiming his daughter had been used and the accused then started to repeatedly harass the family with nuisance calls.

Miss Cavender said after 2015 she was made subject to a harassment warning by the police and a civil injunction brought by the family.

But she breached that with a social media message two minutes before it expired, saying to one of his sisters 'now watch what happens'.

After enlisting 30-year-old friend Sandeep Dogra numerous offensive Facebook and Instagram posts were directed at the family.

As well as threats to kill them and rape them one of the comments branded them 'fat, like your elephant god'.

They also went to the Hindu temple where they harassed the man's mum and called his dad making more abusive threats to him about raping his family.

In another incident as parcel of beef was put through the door of the family home which, being Hindus, they found very upsetting.

In victim personal statements the two sisters said they had suffered great stress for many yeas because of it.

And one said that Mudhar even got another child to bully her six-year-old son at school during the campaign of abuse.

Mudhar, of Eastcott Hill, and Dogra, of Castle Dore, Freshbrook, each pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment.

The court heard after a difficult childhood where her mother treated her harshly she went on to get a degree in media and cultural studies.

Since she was charged at the start of the year Richard Williams, for Mudhar, said there had been no further problems with her contacting the victims, though she claimed they had abused her.

Emma Handslip, for Dogra, said he became involved after he felt the victims had racially abused his mum.

Like his co-defendant had been shunned by their community after what they had been doing came out.

Passing sentence Judge Robert Pawson said "Most people from religious backgrounds seek to find a common ground on what they share, be it a faith in God or human nature.

"Not from you: your behaviour was unrelenting, provocative and extremely frightening."

He imposed two year jail terms suspended for two years with a six months curfew, 100 hours of unpaid work, rehabilitation activity requirement days and £750 costs.

The judge also imposed a restraining order banning them from contacting the family, going to the roads they live on and the Hindu Temple.

"I hope this sentence draws a line in the sand and there will be no repetition. You have been warned both of you," he said.