REDBRIDGE’S oldest ASBO breaker has avoided jail despite sending more than 200 obscene letters to a young barmaid he was obsessed with.

One-legged Gordon Peters sent notes calling 23-year-old Italian, Anna Guled, a prostitute and a drug dealer to three east London pubs where she worked.

The 75-year-old even wrote her telephone number on the envelopes so that people passing-by the buildings’ communal postboxes saw her contact details and called up demanding sex.

He appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Monday but Judge Timothy King decided to suspend his eight-month prison sentence for two years as probation reports suggested custody would have no effect on his behaviour.

Elizabeth Neal, mitigating, said: “He is most concerned about getting a custodial sentence and is not taking this particularly lightly.

“Since he was last arrested there have been no further breaches and he has had time to reflect and consider his actions.

“He is estranged from from his only living relatives and clearly has some sort of personality disorder.”

Apart from the Black Horse and Maguires Pubs, in Chapel Road, Ilford, and the Ruskin Arms in Manor Park, Peters also sent poisoned-pen letters to Ilford Police, Barking Police and even a professor at Kent University.

He was given an anti-social behaviour order on August 31 last year that forbade him writing to any licensed premises, contacting Miss Guled or her boss Katrina Quinn.

It also banned him from complaining to the police or Redbridge Council without going through a lawyer.

At that time Peters was sentenced to five months in prison for offences amounting to harrassment but continued sending abusive correspondence the day of his release.

Judge King warned Peters, of Beal Guest House, Argyle Road, Ilford, that he was very fortunate to avoid prison.

He said: “This is a flagrant disregard of an order of the court. He seems to have a warped view of others who are just going about their daily business.

“He sent offensive, poisonous, menacing and unpleasant letters full of unfounded complaints to innocent people.

“If you breach this order again I promise you will only leave this court through the dock and down to the cells.”