Mum avoids prison after ex bust-up knife threat

AN ‘aggressive’ mum who threatened her ex-partner with a knife after accusing him of stealing her wedding dress has avoided jail.

Jade Lees punched her ex in the face and smashed his glasses when he dropped their daughters off at her house with his new girlfriend in the car.

The 28-year-old then ran into the house, grabbed a knife and ‘pushed it towards him’, Manchester Crown Court heard.

She had to be held back by her ex-partner when she then waved the knife towards his girlfriend.

The mum, from Little Hulton, has now been spared jail after a judge said it was ‘not in the public interest’ to send her to prison.

The court heard how the Lees and the complainant had been together for around four years before separating in 2016.

They have two daughters together.

The complainant grabbed Lees by the arms in an attempt to calm her down and was forced to bite her so she would drop the knife, the court heard. The couple drove away and called the police.

Mitigating, Joe Boyd said his client – who has no previous convictions – brought the knife outside with the intention of slashing her ex-partner’s car tyres.

He said the children were inside so didn’t witness the incident.

“She had had a significant relationship with the complainant, he was the father of both children”, Mr Boyd added.

Sentencing, Judge Alan Conrad said a jail term would not serve public interest but added: “You took out a knife and that is a serious thing to do.”

Lees, of Newgate Drive, Little Hulton, pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article and assault by beating. She was sentenced to a two-year community order made up of 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and a two-month curfew.