A TELEVISION builder flew into a 'Godzilla rage' before he was arrested outside a Redditch McDonalds, his estranged wife told a court.

Huntley Thawe, 40, from Channel 4's Renovation Game, denies using threatening behaviour, obstructing a constable and two counts of assaulting a police officer on April 15 this year.

The father-of-two was picking up his children, aged six and nine, from Anna Thawe in the Clews Road car park, when they got into a row.

During the second day of trial at Redditch Magistrates' Court, Mrs Thawe described how her ex used his van to block her car into a parking bay after she refused to hand over their son's passports for a trip.

She said: "I was scared of him being violent, as he just kept on walking round the car. He said he needed the passports to book the flights."

Mrs Thawe said she was 'disgusted' by the way he spoke to police officers, who arrived after she called 999.

"He has a Godzilla-like temper, he really does. He's like a monster, basically," she told the court.

First officer to arrive PC Simon Riley, said Mr Thawe called officers 'a joke' and pushed his arm into a parked car as they tried to arrest him.

A bystander's video footage, played to the court, showed three officers using batons and pepper spray to restrain the defendant.

Giving evidence on Friday, Mr Thawe, who lives in Kidderminster, told magistrates he knew police would take 'the woman's side', adding that he resisted arrest because 'slave days are long gone'.

"You don't have to bow down to the law anymore," he said. "The safest place for a black man to be should be in his car."

He denied blocking his wife with his van and accused police officers of assaulting him during the struggle that ensued.

He said: "I would never ever hit a police officer. Never ever. I looked round and there was a copper round the side of the car. Another one then punched me in the face.

"I said ‘Why are you punching me in the face?’

"My eyes did not open after the first pepper spray, it was so painful. I couldn’t open my eyes for two hours after."

The trial continues.