A Downend man became so enraged when he was served cauliflower cheese on his birthday he turned into 'King Kong', a court heard. Timothy Robinson looked dead in his eyes, telling his partner "Do you want to see the real Timothy?", Bristol Crown Court heard.
With that, she described how "looking like King Kong" he began snarling, took a bread knife out of a drawer and held it 4cm to her face. Mercifully, a friend of the couple who had come for tea grabbed Robinson's arm but Robinson managed to grab her throat and squeeze it.
The 46-year-old, of Dibden Close, pleaded guilty to two assaults, strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and threatening with a blade. Judge Michael Longman jailed him for two years and nine months.
