'Jealous' thug held knife to throat of ex-girlfriend

VICTIM WAS BANNED FROM WORKS PARTIES DURING CAMPAIGN OF CONTROL

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

A 'PATHOLOGICALLY jealous' thug held a knife to his ex-partner's throat on 'many occasions' and banned her from attending a work Christmas party.

Szymon Klimkiewikz, 24, has been locked up after subjecting the woman to a two-year campaign of controlling and coercive behaviour.

Klimkiewikz was angered when she encountered men at work and banned her from attending Christmas parties, Manchester Crown Court heard.

He became violent and made menacing threats.

Prosecutors told how Klimkiewikz, from Bolton, became 'pathologically jealous' during their relationship. He would snatch her phone from her hand and look through it and didn't like it when she worked with other men.

Klimkiewikz would ring her when she was at work, and called her a 'sl**' if he heard men in the background.

At times she became so distressed by these calls that she had to leave work early, prosecutor Laura Broome said.