'Every day she woke up she wondered what was going to happen'

A ‘pathologically jealous’ thug held a knife to his ex-partner’s throat on ‘many occasions’ and banned her from attending a work Christmas party. Szymon Klimkiewikz, 24, has been locked up after subjecting the woman to a two-year campaign of controlling and coercive behaviour.

Klimkiewikz was angered when she encountered men at work and even banned her from attending Christmas parties, Manchester Crown Court heard. He became violent and made menacing threats, including telling her that if he was sent to prison ‘he would make it over something proper’.

Prosecutors told how Klimkiewikz, from Bolton, became ‘pathologically jealous’ during their relationship. He would snatch her phone from her hand and look through it, and didn’t like it when she worked with other men.

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Klimkiewikz would ring her when she was at work, and called her a ‘sl**’ if he heard men in the background. At times she became so distressed by these calls that she had to leave work early, prosecutor Laura Broome said.

“The defendant forbade her from attending work related events such as Christmas parties,” the prosecutor said. She said Klimkiewikz controlled how his partner dressed, and locked her in the house and slapped her if he didn’t approve.

She said that some incidents caused bruising. The woman took pictures of her injuries but Klimkiewikz would delete them from her phone.

When she went out, Klimkiewikz ordered her to inform him of her location every hour. She became ‘increasingly isolated’ and was prevented from seeing her friends.

Ms Broome said Klimkiewikz would threaten her with a knife. “She describes on many occasions the defendant held a knife to her throat,” the