A HAMPSHIRE man banned from seeing his wife after he threatened to shoot her has painted his own house with hate messages.

John Parker covered the front of his house he used to share with his ex-wife Linda with messages in huge red writing.

On the left side of the front of the house Mr Parker daubed the messages: "Thanks 2 all the people who cost my home for my children."

The message on the right side of the house, in Reynolds Dale, Totton, reads: "Carol hope you die of cancer and all of scum friends with pain what my children has. Hope ur all happy."

Mr Parker said he had written the messages to get back at his wife and her friends.

The 41-year-old said: "I'm trying to get my message across in the most noticeable way without getting into trouble."

Mr Parker was banned from seeing Linda, 38, in April last year after sending her a chilling text message on her mobile phone.

The message referred to Michael Ryan, who killed 16 people - including his own mother - during a shooting spree in Hungerford, Berkshire, in 1987.

In the message, Mr Parker threatened to shoot his wife and any boyfriend of hers.

It said: "I've got a gun with the type of bullets that will go through his head and your head."

He pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment and was told to complete 225 hours of unpaid work.

After the case he said: "I took the view that Linda and her friends had messed up my life and I was going to mess up theirs.

"But Ryan did a lot of wrong and I regret saying what I did."

Mr Parker, who now lives in Downs Park Crescent, Eling, said: "I hate what this has done to my kids and I want to get my message out."

One of Mr Parker's former neighbours in Reynolds Dale, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Echo: "What he has done is crazy behaviour.

"We're not very happy because we are forced to look at it now."

A spokeswoman for Hampshire Police said they had received complaints but added as long as messages did not identify anyone they were powerless to do anything about them.