Jail sentence for dad-of-three who threatened neighbour with a knife

A DAD-OF-THREE who threatened to kill his neighbour with a kitchen knife was jailed for 14 months last Friday.

Timothy Gordon Douglas (pictured), 42, of Marine Road, Pensarn, Abergele, had pleaded guilty to having a knife and making threats at Maes y Dre in the town, where he lived with his partner and young children, on May 10.

Prosecutor Richard Edwards said their neighbour Michael Slack’s son Ryan had lent Douglas £20 and had asked when it could be paid back.

Mr Edwards said there was an argument in the front garden and Douglas went into his house before returning with a knife between seven and eight inches long.

The court heard that Douglas was “brandishing” the knife and shouted to Michael Slack: “Come on big man, step out here.”

Mr Edwards said: “Mr Slack took his family inside.

Douglas was pushing at the gate and trying to enter the garden when he said: ‘I will shove this in you’, before a neighbour pulled him away.

“Mr Slack feared he was trying to stab him.”

The prosecutor said Douglas, who has 73 previous offences, had been jailed in 2012 for returning to a pub with a kitchen knife and carpet-cutting knife and threatening staff after being asked to leave.

Andrew Green, defending, said: “He knows it is custody. The only question is for how long.

“This was a neighbours’ dispute which got out of hand. This was a bit of a pressure-cooker situation building for some time.”

Sentencing Douglas to 14 months jail reduced for an early guilty plea, Judge Niclas Parry said: “Clearly this is a man who resorts to using knives to resolve conflicts.”