A man who turned up at his ex-partner's home wielding a machete told a judge he "just wanted to see his son".
Christopher Atherton, 29, sent threatening messages to the woman and later tried to pressure her to withdraw her statement.
Atherton, of Ullswater Street, St Helens, admitted multiple breaches of a non-molestation order banning him from contacting the mother of his child, possession of a bladed article and intimidating a witness and appeared for sentence at Liverpool Crown Court today.
