Serial thug held knife to woman’s neck and told her: ‘I am going to kill you’

GLYN Leedell avoided jail despite threatening to kill a woman with a kitchen knife.

The criminal and his girlfriend met the victim in a pub in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

They were invited back to the victim’s house to carry on socialising with her friends.

But the woman became concerned when she discovered Leedell, 39, had taken a knife from her kitchen, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

The woman tried to pass the knife to one of her friends but Leedell, above, then produced another one with a blade of about five inches. He held the knife to the woman’s neck telling her: ‘I am going to kill you. I am going to slice your throat.’

He was eventually bundled out of the house. Leedell admitted affray which carries a maximum penalty of three years in jail.

The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson, was told the lout, from Mexborough, had 44 previous convictions – but gave him an 18-month suspended sentence.

And in another case, a son avoided jail despite smashing up his mother’s house and threatening to stab her.

Shane Haddlesey, 25, had caused hundreds of pounds of damage at his mother’s home in October last year and also grabbed a knife and told her: ‘I am going to f****** stab you’.

He pleaded guilty to criminal damage, possession of a bladed item, threatening behaviour and battery at Leeds Crown Court but received a ninemonth suspended sentence.