Man jailed for shooting wife's former lover after he posted revenge porn on Facebook
Robert Ellerby then leaned out an attic room window and 'blasted' Scott Watmuff with a shotgun
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A man who shot his wife's former lover, who posted a revenge porn photograph of her on Facebook, has been jailed.
Robert Ellerby, 44, shot Scott Watmuff, 41, with a shotgun after he refused to remove the picture of Ellerby's wife Rubbina.
Teesside Crown Court heard Watmuff and Rubbina shared a flat together before they ended their affair and she had moved back in with her husband.
He later shared a revenge porn picture of her on Facebook before turning up at the couple's home drunk and demanding £500 for Rubbina's share of deposit, the BBC reports.
When they didn't answer, he picked up a stone and hurled it through her Honda Civic's windscreen, reportedly causing £2,000-worth of damage.
The court was told Ellerby then leaned out an attic room window and "blasted" Watmuff with a shotgun, some of the shot hitting the back of his right leg.
He suffered 20 small wounds from the shot, and said he needed a transfusion of three pints of blood, The Mirror reports.
Judge Stephen Ashurt said: "Breakdowns of relationships usually do create tensions but they can never be resolved by threatening another with, let alone discharging, a loaded weapon because of the obvious risks.
"Even if Scott Watmuff was an unsavoury character, you were not justified in shooting at or towards him."
After admitting a firearms offence and causing acutal bodily harm, Ellerby was jailed for 27 months.
Watmuff was jailed last month for 16 weeks after he admitted criminal damage and disclosing a private sexual photograph with intent to cause distress.