Controlling brute made threats to burn down house
A CONTROLLING thug has been jailed after repeatedly threatening to burn down the house of his expartner’s sister after smashing her windows with a brick.
Graham Peet, 36, had been in a relationship with the woman for two years, but it had been ‘underpinned’ with violence and she had difficulties leaving him.
In October last year, he was seen shouting at her in a van and punching her to the head, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
After the couple split up, Peet went to her sister’s house in Leicester in search of his ex and threw a brick through her front window, narrowly missing her five-year-old son who was sitting in the living room.
He then sent ‘chilling’ texts to her sister, threatening to ‘burn the house down and set fire to the front door.’
He added: “I’ll put the whole family at risk, trust me, I will.
“I don’t give a s*** who’s in the house, that’s how I feel.”
After rekindling the relationship, the couple moved to Dukinfield, but again Peet became violent, punching her on New Year’s Eve and pouring bleach on clothes she was wearing following an argument about her running him a bath.
On another occasion as she tried to leave their house, he pulled her back by her hair and kicked her twice to the leg before she managed to escape and call for help.
Pleading guilty to damaging property, two offences of assault by beating, driving with no insurance and criminal damage, Peet was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment.
Peet was said to have 69 convictions for 196 offences including drink driving, assaulting emergency workers and other violent offences.
Dan Gaskell, defending, said Peet suffers with borderline personality disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder, which affects his behaviour.
He said: “He has a low tolerance to frustration, a low threshold for aggression and he acts impulsively.
“Immediately after making the threat of causing further damage, he said he would not do that. “He had come to this area to get away from problems with the male members of her family. There are references to an apparent undercurrent between parties. He does have mental health issues.
“It’s a complicated picture and this was a commission of disturbing offences.” Sentencing him, Judge Angela Nield said: “You were in search of her despite the fact your relationship had broken down. “When you broke the window of her sister’s home, a young child was in the front room – happily they did not sustain injury. “You had an exchange of texts with one of her sisters, and during the course of those texts, you made very frightening threats.” Peet, of no fixed address, was also banned from contacting her family indefinitely under the terms of a restraining order.
During the course of those texts you made very frightening threats
Judge Angela Nield