Hull Daily Mail

Family’s terror as armed beekeeper smashes his way into their home

HOT-HEADED TROUBLEMAK­ER WANTED TO TAKE HIS BABY SON

- By MARK NAYLOR mark.naylor@reachplc.com @Gtmarknayl­or

A TERRIFIED family had to barricade themselves inside their living room after a violent and hotheaded troublemak­er smashed his way inside their home because he wanted to take his baby son.

The baby’s mother was “screaming in terror” that he was going to take the young boy after he had smashed windows on her father’s van and at the house. Aggressive and threatenin­g Joseph Khan had two knives and a tyre iron with him at the time and he was an “angry man” who had a “red mist that overtakes everything”.

He was a sinister Jekyll and Hyde who “always believes that he is right” and, although he could be a “nice person”, he became violent when he had been drinking, Hull Crown Court heard. Khan, 24, of Kent Square, Bridlingto­n, admitted affray, two offences of possessing a knife and another of sending malicious messages between April 15 and 17.

Stephen Welch, prosecutin­g, said that Khan had been a friend of the woman for about 12 years and, at the time, they had been in a relationsh­ip for more than a year. She described him as a “nice person” when he had not been drinking but that he became violent when he had.

Khan sent a series of threatenin­g messages to her, saying that she was disrespect­ing him and that he would kill her and himself and take away their young son. He went to her family’s home in Bridlingto­n and smashed a windscreen and window on her father’s van only about a week after he had suffered a heart attack.

The father lost work through being unable to use his van. Khan also smashed windows at their home and tried to force his way in while armed with a tyre iron. “The family barricaded themselves inside the living room as he was forcing entry,” said Mr Welch. The police were alerted and Khan was arrested nearby.

“He struggled violently and had to be detained with handcuffs and leg straps,” said Mr Welch. Police found one knife near Khan’s feet while he was being arrested and a second was seen on the floor of the police van after he was removed. Both were kitchen knives.

The girlfriend’s mother later said that the whole incident was “terrifying” and she really believed that Khan was going to cause serious harm. He had caused trauma to them all and knew that the father had recently suffered a heart attack.

She did not think that she would ever forget hearing her daughter “screaming in terror” that Khan was coming for the baby. “He has a red mist that overtakes everything,” she said. “He always believes that he is right. I don’t want him near me or my home. It makes me feel insecure and vulnerable.”

Khan’s girlfriend said that, when he was released from prison, she would feel more secure with a restrainin­g order. “I want to move on with my life,” she said.

Khan had conviction­s for six previous offences, including assault. He had been jailed for eight months in June last year for dangerous driving and for 16 weeks in September for assaulting a policeman by spitting at him while being abusive.

Khan had, until he was jailed for dangerous driving, been working as a full-time beekeeper and had a “pleasant life” then. The wounds were healing with his now ex-girlfriend.

Judge Bury told Khan that, if he did not resolve his issues, he faced spending longer and longer in prison and not seeing his son until he was an adult.

Khan was jailed for two years and was given a five-year restrainin­g order.

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Joseph Khan was jailed for two years and was given a five-year restrainin­g order

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