A mother thought she was going to die when her son choked, punched and terrorised her in her own home.
Alexander McPartland was banned from contacting his mother under a restraining order after he “went berserk” and robbed her in 2012.
She still took pity on her son when he was homeless, and let him stay at her Middlesbrough home last month.
“She felt she couldn’t see him on the street in the cold weather,” said prosecutor Paul Lee today.
He was not allowed in the house on his own and they argued when she caught him after he climbed in through a window.
He turned violent, putting his arm around her throat from behind and tightening his grip, choking her, Teesside Crown Court heard.
As she fell to the floor on her hands and knees, he told her: “You should just die.”
She struggled to breathe and thought she was going to die, said Mr Lee.
He added: “The only thing she could do was pretend to be unconscious in the hope that it would stop it. Fortunately it did.”
Mr McPartland then picked up a craft knife and made swiping motions in front of her neck.
She said his eyes were full of hatred and anger as he told her: “You deserve to be dead. I want to kill you.”
“She believed he was going to try to cut her throat,” Mr Lee told the court.
“Not content with that, he began to punch his mother to the face and head.”
Bleeding from a cut to her scalp, she calmed her son down and called the police.
She later said in a statement: “I just want to cry all the time. I don’t know why he’s always so violent to me. I can’t take it anymore.”
Mr McPartland, formerly of Delarden Road, Pallister Park, Middlesbrough, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and two breaches of the restraining order.
He had drug problems since he was 13 and, in a long domestic violence history, most of his previous convictions were against his mum.
He was given a suspended sentence for violently robbing her of £45 from her bag in 2012.
He was sent to a young offenders’ institution after he beat her unconscious in her home in June last year.
He was given another suspended sentence in March this year after he kicked her door open to come in and brush his teeth.
Rachel Dyson, defending, said he was devastated by his “exceptionally violent and worrying” behaviour and understood the harm he had caused.
He had used drugs and alcohol excessively at the time but did not want to excuse his behaviour.
Ms Dyson said Mr McPartland was a “polite and intelligent young man” when sober, but had “deep-seated underlying issues” and needed counselling.
She added: “There is clearly a very, very difficult relationship between Mr McPartland and his mother.
“She felt she couldn’t see him on the street, then he effectively threw that good will back in her face by acting in this fashion.”
The judge, Recorder Graeme Cook, jailed Mr McPartland for 86 weeks.
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