Man who threatened partner with knife sentenced

A "persistent criminal" who threatened his partner with a knife and bit her ear and nose has been jailed.

Bradford Crown Court heard Kyle Green subjected the woman to repeated attacks between January and March 2025.

On one occasion, the court heard the 32-year-old, who has 26 previous convictions for 39 offences, threatened to kill himself and his partner if she left him and made threats towards her and her family.

Green, of Westminster Crescent, Leeds, was jailed on Monday for four years and nine months after he pleaded guilty to controlling or coercive behaviour.

During the sentencing hearing, the court heard on one occasion while drunk Green accused his partner of cheating, punched her in the back of the head several times and locked her in the bathroom.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Mark McKone said a friend had to intervene "to stop you throwing a coffee table at the complainant when she threatened to call the police".

In an unrelated incident, Green also pleaded guilty to a robbery carried out in June 2024.

The court heard Green and another male, who is still at large, had invited a man back to a property where they attacked him and stole his money.

Defending, barrister Jessica Heggie said Green had been addicted to Class A drugs between the ages of 18 and 25 but had "turned his life around" before the events of 2024 and 2025.

However, she said the breakdown of a previous relationship had sent him on "a downward spiral of mental health".

Green was also made the subject of a restraining order to stop him contacting the complainant or attending her address for seven years.

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