A Spalding man was intending to self harm rather than use it on his then girlfriend, a court has heard.
Kyle Mitchell of Chestnut Avenue, who admitted possessing a bladed article in public, was said to have been in a three year relationship – his first – and had lived with his girlfriend for a year but it was just breaking up.
Prosecuting at Boston Magistrates Court, Paul Wood said Mitchell’s girlfriend had left their home without him but later, when she didn’t come home, he went out to see her and took a kitchen knife with him.
Mr Wood said that when he found her he got out of his car carrying the knife but his only intention had apparently been to self harm rather than harm her.
However, Mr Wood said, his girlfriend and her friends were afraid and the police were called.
Mitigating, Phillipa Chatterton said Mitchell was ‘very immature’ and had had no previous experience of a relationship and had started to self harm as the relationship broke up.
She said that he dropped the knife after he had walked two steps from the car and had only ever intended to self harm, not harm her or anyone else.
After reading a report from the Probation Service, the magistrates ordered Mitchell to undertake 15 rehabilitation days, fined him £350 and ordered him to pay £114 in court charges.
