A MOTHER-OF-THREE feared for her life and the lives of her children when her ex-partner came at her "Terminator-style" armed with a knife, a court heard.
Michael Carlisle, 29, formerly of Edward Street, Grimsby, was seen holding a knife cradling one of his daughters and saying "Do you want to go to heaven with daddy?"
Police officers, who had been called to the home by Carlisle as he threatened to kill his partner, later disarmed him after a stand-off in Hainton Avenue watched by neighbours and passers-by.
Grimsby Crown Court heard the stand-off began when Carlisle called at the back door of the home at about 8pm as his children slept upstairs and his ex-partner was asleep on the sofa.
Sentencing Carlisle to a total of two-and-a-half years in prison, Judge Mark Bury said: "This is the most serious affray I have had the displeasure to sentence."
The judge said his former partner, aged 21, with whom Carlisle had two children, believed she was going to be killed.
He sentenced Carlisle to two years and three months in prison for affray, which he admitted.
He was also locked up for one month consecutively for common assault and a further month for criminal damage, both of which he admitted.
A further month was added for a separate offence of making off without payment on July 19, which he admitted.
Prosecuting, Jeremy Evans said his former partner had been harassed with a series of text messages and phone calls after their four-year relationship ended.
It concluded after he suffered depression at the loss of a relative and he turned to smoking cannabis. Mr Evans said Carlisle sold family furniture to feed his habit.
On July 26, he called at the rented home in Hainton Avenue to where the mother and children had moved.
While she was upstairs he stole keys to the home. When she confronted him there was a verbal exchange and she called police on her mobile phone. Carlisle snatched it and fled.
He returned about 20 minutes later and lobbed the phone at the front window of the home.
Mr Evans said on July 31 he again called at the home because he heard his ex-partner had a date. The prosecutor said: "The complainant used the movie The Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger to describe how the defendant was coming at her as she tried to evade his actions."
He told how he kicked in the kitchen door at the rear at the property and chased his ex-partner as she tried to leave by the front door screaming for help. He pulled her by the hair and threw her to the floor of the hallway.
Due to the violence, children upstairs began to cry and called for their mum.
The mother went to console them. As she sat on the bed of one of them, Carlisle stood in the bedroom doorway brandishing a kitchen knife. Later Carlisle shouted at her: "I'm going to give you a Chelsea smile. I'm going to slit your throat."
Carlisle himself later called 999 and told police he was going to cut his ex-partner's throat.
Police arrived and warned Carlisle they were armed with a taser.
He grabbed one of his daughters and was heard to say "Do you want to come to heaven with daddy?"
In a victim impact statement, his former partner said she had never seen her daughter so terrified and now lives in "constant fear".
For Carlisle, Richard Butters said his client was desperately missing his two children.
He said: "He is devastated how he conducted himself."
The judge imposed an indefinite restraining order on Carlisle who was ordered not to contact his ex-partner.
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