Machete man’s threat to chop up ex-partner
Reporter: Iram Ramzan
Date published: 31 March 2015
A DRUNKEN ex-boyfriend who threatened to chop up his former partner with a foot-long machete has been jailed.
Aaron Walker (32), of Seville Street, Royton, was sentenced to six months at Manchester Crown Court yesterday.
Walker, who worked at Oldham’s Park Cake Bakery, had earlier pleaded guilty at Oldham magistrates court to possessing an offensive weapon in public.
Walker went to former partner Lyndsey Taylor’s house in a drunken rage. Their seven-year-old daughter and the child’s friend were in the house, as was Ms Taylor’s new partner.
Walker shouted, “I’m going to chop you up and chop off his head. If I can’t have you, no one else can.”
He left and returning minutes later with the blade, which he brandished through the letterbox. He shouted: “I’m going to kill you and chop you up.”
Police found Walker kicking the back door and used a taser to restrain him.
Steven Sullivan, defending, said: “He fully accepts what a terrible act he committed. This offence has shocked him.”
Walker has been working with the alcohol treatment service since the offence.
Judge Jeremy Lasker also imposed a three-year restraining order, preventing him contacting his former partner or going near her home.
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