A drunk thug who threatened his ex-partner at a friend’s barbecue has been given a jail sentence.

Dean Simpson, of Waterloo Street, Clayton-le-Moors, got into a ‘verbal altercation’ with Zoe Savage saying ‘I’m going to stab your family up and if you bring **** to my door I’m going to proper hurt you’.

Burnley Crown Court heard how, when the 30-year-old was removed from the house, he later returned and kicked a rear door gate.

He then entered a yard brandishing a narrow bladed knife shouting ‘I’ll stab you all up, don’t **** with me, I’m not scared of no-one’.

Simpson pleaded guilty to affray, possessing an offensive weapon and criminal damage and was jailed for 10 months.

Louise Cowen, prosecuting, said house owner Carla Turner said Simpson was drunk, had fallen off a chair in the kitchen, and got into a ‘loud argument’ with Miss Savage saying ‘you don’t know who I am, no-one messes with me, you don’t know what I’m capable of’.

The court heard how Simpson had previously been jailed in 2007 for making threats to kill against another of his ex-partners. He was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) but ordered to serve a minimum of two years.

Mark Stuart, defending, said Simpson ended up serving six-and-a-half years before being released on licence.

He told the court how Simpson has already been recalled for 15 months since the latest incident in May 2014 because at the time he was ‘undoubtedly not fit to give instructions’ and was ‘mentally unwell’.

Mr Stuart said Simpson has ‘complex mental health needs’ and told the court how during his previous time in prison his ‘underlying problems were never properly diagnosed’ Mr Stuart said when he was released was ‘effectively put back into the community with no or little help at all.’

Mr Stuart said Simpson had ‘already served the equivalent of a two year and eight month sentence’ which is ‘more than he would’ve received for these matters’.

He said: “He’s in the most dreadful situation which the courts can do little or nothing about. It’s a matter for the parole board, the prison service and his offender manager.”

Mr Stuart said ‘the quicker they can get a package together to get him back into the community the better off the community and he is’.

Judge Beverley Lunt said she had to pass a sentence that is ‘commensurate’ with Simpson’s actions at the barbecue.

Sentencing, she said: “As far as the time spent you’ve in custody, which is a long time you have been recalled, that’s as a direct consequence of committing an offence while you were on licence under an indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP).

“You were warned that would happen when you got your IPP.

“There’s nothing I can do about that and you know that.

“But I have to pass a sentence that is commensurate with what you actually did as far as these offences were concerned.

“By imposing the sentence I do I am taking into account the time you spent and I am lowering the sentences.

“But I also want them to be the kind of sentences where the parole board will appreciate the level of seriousness because neither of these are the most serious offences of their type.”

The court heard Simpson’s case will be heard by the parole review board at the end of his new 10-month jail sentence and that reviews are carried out ‘every six or 12 months’.

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