A ‘drunk and angry man’ attacked his partner with a kitchen knife leaving her with puncture wounds to her hands and leg.
Terence Love, 33, was banging on the victim’s door on Wordsworth Road in Accrington before she let him in and ‘started kicking off’, Burnley Crown Court heard.
The father-of-one then picked up a knife and ‘went mental’ trying to stab her and was ‘waving the knife around’ causing her to suffer defensive injuries
She then fled to Love’s father’s home further up the street who persuaded her to call the police.
Love, of Broadfield Road, Accrington, pleaded guilty assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for 18 months.
Stephen Parker, prosecuting, said the incident happened on April 6 this year after he came round to her house.
He told the court: “In his drunken state he picked up a knife from the kitchen door and in her words went mental and tried to stab her. She held up her hands in a defensive motion and received cuts to her hands. He was waving the knife around and also cut her leg.”
Mr Parker said the victim ran up the street and when Love’s father saw her he said ‘what the hell has he done now?’ to which she replied ‘he’s lost it’. He then told her to call the police but she was ‘reluctant to do so’ saying ‘he needs help, they will lock him up’, the court heard.
When Love was arrested by police he told officers ‘I haven’t done anything’.
The court heard how the victim told police she was ‘very concerned about his mental health’ and ‘when he goes on drinking binges it makes it worse, he loses the plot and he’s not right’.
Mr Parker said the victim said: “He needs sectioning and putting in a hospital and not going back to prison as it doesn’t give him the health that he needs.”
The court heard that Love’s father told officers his son had taken drugs since he was 15 and ‘thinks the world is against him’.
Mark Stuart, defending, said his ‘difficulties’ needed sorting out ‘sooner rather than later’. He said: “The defendant’s problem comes about from too much to drink in domestic situations. Fortunately enough this time the consequences were not that severe.”
A judge said it was ‘pure good fortune’ that Terence Love’s partner didn’t suffer more serious injuries.
Sentencing, Recorder Ian Harris told him: “You were a drunk and angry man with a knife.
“Such an individual is capable of causing enormous harm and is a threat to life, particularly with your previous convictions for violence.
“Knives kill, maim and terrify people, particularly in the hands of an annoyed and intoxicated individual such as you were on that evening. It’s pure good fortune and nothing else that you aren’t facing graver charges.
“Had she not held her hands in front of her who knows what injuries you would have caused her? You are a high risk of serious harm to partners past, present and future.”
The court heard how Love had previously been jailed for 24 weeks in 2013 for possessing a knife in a public place and criminal damage.
Recorder Harris said on that incident he again attended his partner’s house and became ‘jealous’ after seeing her there with a male friend.
He said: “You smashed a patio door to get in and picked up two knives and threatened the male in the house saying you were going to ‘******* kill him’.”
