A crazed stalker who terrorised his ex-girlfriend and then bit and stabbed two men who tried to rescue her from his clutches was jailed for more than four years.
Ian Fawcett, 28, from Middlesbrough, was inflamed by jealousy after the 17-year-old ended their 26 months relationship.
A month later, on May 30, he followed the teenager to her job in a hairdressers on Cargo Fleet Lane, Middlesbrough, attempting to speak to her and he waited outside drinking for most of the day.
When she left escorted by her 14-year-old sister he was abusive, punched her arm and he spat in her face and hair.
He followed them to their Middlesbrough home and he forced his way inside grabbing her by the throat and he bit her on the cheek.
Prosecutor Deborah Smithies told Teesside Crown Court that the girl struggled to breathe but she pushed him away and she went into the kitchen. He went to a cutlery drawer and he seized a knife which he stabbed into a door narrowly missing her head.
Her screams were heard by two men who lived nearby and they dashed into the house to rescue her.
Fawcett bit a piece out of one man’s ear and he stabbed the other man several times on the body and leg.
The man who lost part of his ear said in a victim statement that he now avoided looking in a mirror because of the trauma it caused.
The girl, who is now in a new relationship, said that it was difficult because she feared it turning out the same way. She said that she was taking anti depressants and sleeping pills to cope.
Fawcett had a previous conviction for actual bodily arm assault in 2004.
Rebecca Brown, defending, said that he had been in custody since June 2 and he had used the time wisely.
She added: “It has to be conceded that this will have to be a sentence of immediate custody.
“The defendant wishes to have nothing more to do with the girl, the relationship is over.”
Judge Michael Taylor told Fawcett: “The relationship came to an end and you would not accept the termination of that relationship.
“Fuelled with jealousy you set about a truly terrifying course of criminal conduct.
“Two young men acting as Good Samaritans ended up set about by you in two terrifying, frenzied attacks.”
Fawcett, of Shelley Road, Saltersgill, Middlesbrough, was jailed for four years and three months after he admitted two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and two of assault by beating.
The judge also imposed an indefinite restraining order banning Fawcett from contacting the sisters.
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