Darlaston thug held two-foot knife to girlfriend's throat
A man held a two-foot long knife to his girlfriend's throat and told her she must obey him, a court heard.
Jack Clark, aged 22, lost his rag with Laura Smith in a row about housework, Wolverhampton Magistrates Court was told.
The court heard it wasn't the first time that Clark, from Whitehouse Avenue, Darlaston, had lost his temper with Miss Smith, who he has two children with.
Miss Smith had wanted to go and see her mother on the evening in question but a frustrated Clark blamed her for the housework not being done and tried to ban her from going.
Prosecutor Kelly Crow told the court: "On December 29, a 999 call was received by police after a concerned neighbour thought she heard heard a woman screaming and a male hitting her.
"They had been in a relationship for around four years, and there had been unreported domestic incidents before.
"Miss Smith told police that he has strangled her, brandished a knife and made threats to her that he would kill her parents.
"They tended to fall our every few months.
"On December 28 at 6pm, the defendant returned home and started, in Miss Smith's words, to 'kick off' about her not doing the housework.
"A verbal altercation took place, in which he told her she couldn't visit her mother's house because she had work to do.
"He then went up to the bedroom and picked up a two-foot knife from under the bed.
"It was bent-shaped knife, like a machete.
"He grabbed Miss Smith by the shoulder and held the knife an inch or two away from her throat.
"She says she didn't know what he was going to do.
"He told her she had to obey him because no-one else would love her and she was no good as a mum.
"They have two small children together who were not present at the time."
Clark pleaded guilty to assaulting Laura Smith by beating her, and possession of a knife.
Defence solicitor Roger Owen told magistrates: "He knows he crossed the line.
"He has accepted what he has done.
"He has had difficulty with depression."
He will be sentenced at Walsall Magistrates Court on January 25.
He was bailed with conditions that he stays at his mother's house, doesn't contact Miss Smith and stays away from her mother's address as well as the home the pair shared on Whitehouse Avenue, Darlaston.
