The couple had been in a relationship for six years but separated last year, the court heard.
In early October, the woman had started receiving text messages from her 48-year-old estranged husband that she took as threatening and intimidating, police prosecutor Tim Hutton told the court...
...toward the end of the offending period, the victim noticed some of the text messages contained information that only she and a few people close to her knew including the sale of a horse and other private matters, Sergeant Hutton said...When police spoke with the man on October 24, he readily admitted to having planted a recording device attached to an air-conditioning duct underneath his ex-wife's home which was connected through the floor to a microphone in the woman's bedroom, Sgt Hutton told the court. more
