Years of controlling behaviour finally ended when thug threatened to slit girlfriend’s throat

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Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A ‘dominating’ man threatened to slit his girlfriend’s throat with two ‘lethal’ kitchen knives during an attack that followed years of abusive behaviour.

Nathan Haigh, 25, became so controlling that his girlfriend would have to ask his permission to visit her own family. One one occasion Haigh locked her in their home and told her that a colleague was going to come over and rape her.

She was so petrified that she called her parents and threw blankets and a mattress onto the ground below in order to escape via a window.

Things eventually came to a head in November 2019, when a drunken Haigh grabbed two large kitchen knives, pressed his face to his