Yahoo News Jealous lover took Rambo knife to ex's house and threatened to kill her new partner
A jealous lover drank two bottles of vodka and took a Rambo knife to his ex-partner's home threatening to kill her new lover.
He felt betrayed when he found out the new lover was a so-called friend of his. Jonathon Walls, 39, of Scunthorpe wept in the dock as the evidence was described at Grimsby Crown Court. Prosecuting, Jemima Stephenson told how Walls was arrested after a disturbance outside the home in Scunthorpe at 4am on March 1.
He was shouting threats to kill and made a threat to petrol bomb the home of the new lover's mother. Walls admitted making a threat to kill and possession of a knife.
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The court heard the relationship between Walls and his ex-partner broke down at the end of August last year. Soon after a new relationship was started by his ex-partner, Walls became jealous.
He messaged his former friend telling him he was coming round to the house with a knife. For Walls, Ian Durant said his client had moved on from the incident. He said he works as a concrete mixer for electricity sub-stations and nuclear power plants. He said his client deeply regrets his actions.
"Fortunately, no one was hurt," he said.
Sentencing Walls, Judge Richard Woolfall said the start of a new relationship by his ex-partner with his friend had made him "very unhappy" and feeling "betrayed."
He said the defendant was in no fit state to go anywhere after consuming two bottles of vodka. "That is a recipe for things going out of control. You made threats that you were going to kill him and were stabbing at the wall with the knife.
"It was a Rambo knife. You punched the window of a passing car, such was your rage," told the judge.
He said: "If you hold on to anger, it can eat away at you. You probably have little recollection of that night. But I shudder to think what would have happened had you got into the house." He jailed Walls for 18 months.
