A BRAVE mum faced the abuser who terrorised her and threatened to kill her in her own home as he held a knife to her throat.

Simon McEvoy was jailed for the attack on mum-of-four Caroline Tranter at her family home in Grasmere Drive, Warndon, Worcester.

The 34-year-old courageously read out her victim personal statement from the witness box at Worcester Crown Court on Monday and stayed to watch McEvoy sent to jail.

During the drunken onslaught he threatened her with knives, pulled out clumps of her hair, burst into her room and pulled off her knickers and threatened to kill her and burn her house down.

McEvoy kept his head lowered in the dock, avoiding eye contact with Miss Tranter and the judge who later jailed him.

McEvoy, aged 36, of Hunton Road, Birmingham, had admitted threats to kill, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, affray and two common assaults following the attack on Saturday, November 12 last year.

To protect herself she later had her locks changed and a fire retardant letter box and alarm installed, 'petrified' he would follow through on his threats.

Ms Tranter said: "He pulled so much of my hair out I had a bald patch and it went really thin. He pulled out my extensions and that was very painful.

"It was very sore at the time and they were unusable afterwards. It felt like I had whiplash in my neck and and shoulders where he yanked me around by my hair."

The extensions cost her £240 and it took an hour and a half to have them done.

Miss Tranter also had to pay for a new mattress, bedding and sheets after he urinated on the bed, costing her £1,000.

She told the court he snapped the lock when he forced open her bedroom door and went through her mobile phone and emails.

She added: "Emotionally I feel dead inside. I don't trust anybody anymore. When I eventually got to sleep I would see his face in my dreams. He would be right in my personal space, shouting at me."

Gareth Walters, prosecuting, said the two had been in a relationship since July 2016 after meeting through a dating website.

He said: "At first things went well but then the defendant became controlling."

Matters came to a head on November 11 and November 12.

McEvoy became angry when Miss Tranter did not answer his calls.

He refused to leave her home and later drank a bottle and a half of wine and went out to buy some Baileys Irish Cream.

He added: "The defendant came back to his car and returned with a Stanley knife and started flicking it towards her face."

Later he got two two steak knives from the kitchen and said: "I'm going to kill you. I will hunt you down and kill you. I will burn your house down."

He grabbed her hair, pulled it back and told her she had 'messed with the wrong person'.

Later, when she had gone to another room to sleep he burst in and pulled her knickers off.

Miss Tranter suffered soreness to her neck and shoulders and later found tufts of her hair in the bin. She also had injuries to her groin.

Abigail Nixon, defending, said: "To use a cliché it was six of one and half a dozen of the other. There were consistent declarations of strong love between both parties.

"The complainant mentioned marriage and shared pictures of engagement rings at one point."

Miss Nixon, who handed character references to the judge, described McEvoy's behaviour as 'out of character' and said he had expressed remorse and shame for what she called 'the night of madness'.

Though she conceded the offences crossed the custody threshold she asked the judge to suspend the sentence rather than sending McEvoy to jail.

Miss Nixon said McEvoy's wife had died of cystic fibrosis and he had brought up his daughter alone. She also said he was at low risk of reconviction.

Judge Nicolas Cartwright imposed a 15 year restraining order preventing McEvoy having contact with Miss Tranter and other named people.

The order also stipulates he must not attend two Worcester schools or enter Grasmere Drive in Warndon, Worcester.

Judge Cartwright said McEvoy had said that if he was going to go to prison he would make sure it was for 'something good', describing that as 'a sinister prediction'.

He said: "You put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her. There were threats to hunt her down and burn down her house, making reference to bonfire night on November 5.

"She was a particularly vulnerable victim given she was in her own home at the time and you were being so controlling towards her."

Judge Cartwright said McEvoy had deliberately targeted her hair and humiliated and degraded her and it was clear she had suffered severe psychological harm.

He said there were 'five threats to kill in all'. However, he took into account McEvoy's lack of previous relevant convictions and his guilty pleas, sentencing him to 32 months in prison.

He can expect to serve half his sentence in prison and half in the community on licence.

In total 196 days will be deducted from his sentence, reflecting time spent on a qualifying curfew (189 days) and on remand (seven days).

After the hearing Miss Tranter said she felt he should have got a longer sentence.

She added: "I'm just glad he went down. I wanted to see him go to prison."