A high-flying engineer became addicted to drugs and threatened to shoot his own dad if he did not sell his house for drug money.
Sam Henning once boasted a promising career as a team leader for Airbus, and was responsible for nearly 100 employees. But after turning to drugs and quitting his job, he violently stormed his parents' home in Warrington demanding cash and assaulted his retired step-mother.
Now the 31-year-old has been spared prison and is set to walk into a near £40,000 job.