An 'irate' man threatened to kill a couple he blamed for his imprisonment before turning up at one of their mother's homes armed with a knife. Despite there being young children in the house, he stabbed the front door and tried to break it down.
Arthur Harris, 24, "completely lost his self control" after bumping into victim Shelby Chapman outside the Valley Tavern pub in Fleur de Lis near Blackwood on June 25. The defendant had previously been jailed for 20 months after fighting Ms Chapman's boyfriend Brendan Stone and later turning up at his mother's home with a knife.
Upon seeing Ms Chapman outside the pub, he stared at her, shook his head and called her slag, telling her to "get him down here". She told him to "f*** off" which enraged him, leading him to throw cans of alcohol on the floor and run up to Ms Chapman. He was seen on CCTV gesticulating at the victim irately. He shouted: "I'm going to kill you and Brendan, I went down for 20 months and it's all your fault I went to prison."
