Following his guilty pleas, Curragh spoke to a probation officer and said that after he got out of prison he planned to leave Northern Ireland as it was “so bloody divided”.
The probation officer noted Curragh presented as paranoid, claiming telephone calls in the prison were recorded.
Defence counsel Richard McConkey KC said Curragh needed a mental health assessment but the defendant had rejected this.
Mr McConkey added that Curragh had some “difficulties in his personal life in the previous nine years culminating in his offending behaviour”.
Judge Gordon Kerr KC said: “It is more and more common these days for public figures, including politicians, to be abused online.
“And that abuse, as proved in this case, went well beyond any accepted level of criticism.
“This is a young man who during the course of a number of interviews giving explanations for the behaviour displayed entirely irrational thinking.”
Curragh also received a seven-year restraining order on Mrs Little-Pengelly and was warned not to have contact with his victims.
