He has five previous convictions for nine offences including criminal damage and making threats with a blade
William McNeill was already on a suspended sentence when he tried to attack the pair at an address in Leeds where his on/off girlfriend lived.
Prosecutor Andrew Semple said the pair had been seeing each other intermittently since 2019, and he had turned up intoxicated at her home on October 4, 2020. She let him in and he fell asleep on the sofa, but when the woman’s daughter turned up with her friend, they tried to tell him to leave.He became “immediately argumentative and began shouting”, Mr Semple told Leeds Crown Court.The daughter and her friend began heading up the stairs before McNeill lunged at the daughter’s chest with the knife, but fortunately failed to make contact.The woman then hid the knife from McNeill before he left, but he punched her first.
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