Party bid man pulled knife on couple in home
A MAN took out a kitchen knife and threatened to stab a couple who asked him to leave for attempting to start a party at their home.
Alex Green, 25, was at the home in Bridgend on August 28 when he brandished the weapon.
He was unknown to the couple but tagged along with a friend of theirs to their address, where he began to play music and attempted to start a house party.
When one of the couple told him to leave he pulled out the knife from his pocket and later told her partner: “I’ve been to prison and I’ll do it again, I’m not scared. I’ll stab you, it’s nothing to me.”
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court heard the victims had been on a night out in Porthcawl and got a taxi back to Bridgend where they attended a number of pubs.
An argument later broke out between the two and they returned home.
A friend of the couple was invited to the property and he attended with the defendant and an unknown man.
When Green started playing music, the woman told him to leave her home but he pushed her and caused her to stumble. When she told him not to push her the defendant pulled out a knife with a five-inch blade which he had taken from the kitchen. The woman ran upstairs and locked herself in the bedroom while her partner attempted to call the police.
After the defendant had issued his threat, the male victim claimed Green waved the knife around and made an attempt to stab him. The victim ran from the property and hid in a bush before heading to a friend’s house and calling the police.
Green, of Nanthir Road, Blaengarw, pleaded guilty to affray.
Prosecutor Tom Roberts told the court the defendant had a number of previous convictions for violent offences and he was in breach of a community order he received for slapping a woman in Wyndham Street,
Bridgend, on March 7.
In a victim personal statement read out to the court the female victim said she was left “scared” after the incident and was concerned due to Green knowing where she lived.
The male victim said he “honestly believes he could have been stabbed” and was “concerned for his life”.
Defence barrister Robert Chudleigh said his client recognised his behaviour was “foolish” and was in part due to his drunken state.
He also said Green had been diagnosed for ADHD and a personality disorder which he is being treated for while in custody.
Judge Michael Fitton QC said: “Any combination of anger and drink and you’re assaulting people, even those you don’t know. Man, woman, whoever.
“The consequences of this offence could have so easily been even more serious.”
Green was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and was made subject to a restraining order in respect of the victims.