A angry brute warned he would "do a Raoul Moat" if he was jailed for strangling his partner and threatening her with scissors during a violent attack.
Robert Strain had been arrested and bailed after the terrifying assault, during which he'd picked his girlfriend up by the neck, thrown her on a bed, held her down by her throat and threatened to kill her while holding a pair of scissors. A court heard that, instead of keeping his head down while police investigated and adhering to his bail, the 34-year-old began harassing the victim in order for her to drop the charges.
Over the space of a month, Strain repeatedly turned up at the woman's home, pinned her against a wall by the throat, paced around inside and outside her property and made abusive calls. Prosecutors said that, on one occasion, the bully also sent the victim a message saying "I will do a Raoul Moat on you if I go to prison."
