A TEENAGER from Wrexham who admitted harassment and threatening to stab his former girlfriend has been spared immediate custody.

Keon Davies, 19, admitted two charges of common assault, damaging her mobile phone, putting her in fear of violence by harassment and possessing a kitchen knife in Chester Road, Wrexham, on April 13.

He threatened to throw a brick at her window, went to her home with a knife and threatened to stab her to death.

Davies, of Kenyon Avenue in Garden Village, received a 14 month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.

He was sent on a building better relationships programme run by the probation service and he was placed on rehabilitation.

The judge, Mr Recorder Greg Bull, said Davies to be dealt with for serious violent behaviour.

He had caused fear by his hotheadedness when, aggravated by the taking of cocaine, he completely lost his temper.

Barrister James Coutts, prosecuting at Mold Crown Court, said the couple had been in a 15 month relationship which was described as volatile.

Initially he challenged her about her following a friend of his on social media which, she said, was entirely innocent.

He began shouting at her, said he would not sleep in the same room as her and he sent her downstairs to sleep on the sofa, in her own home.

The next day during an argument he held her by the throat, lifted her off the ground and threw her to the floor.

He took her phone from her and stamped on it.

Davies left, then contacted her asking to meet up, and she said she could not take any more and told him the relationship was over.

He reacted badly, threatened to kill himself and she met him and walked him home, fearing what he might do.

Davies then sent Snapchat messages which amounted to harassment with threats of violence.

He said he would go to her home, smash a window with a brick before hanging himself in a park.

Davies also threatened to stab her to death and then hang himself.

He said in one message that he was going to her home with a rock and a knife and he would not leave until he "saw her bloodied corpse lying on the floor".

When he arrived she tried to calm him down but he pulled out a kitchen knife with a five inch blade from his jacket.

He threatened to stab her in the leg, she could see how angry he was but fortunately a car pulled up in the road which meant he had to hide the knife.

She later told how she had never been so scared in her life and believed she was going to be stabbed.

When he realised she was on the phone to the police he tried to snatch it from her, he pushed her against a wall and punched her.

She was left upset and was crying uncontrollably.

In a victim impact statement she told how she was scared of leaving the house.

Her studies had been affected as she could not attend college for two weeks.

She was currently out of the country working in France and wanted to put it behind her.

Henry Hills, defending, said his client had no previous convictions.

It was clear that he had issues that would benefit from the intervention of the probation service, he said.

Mr Hills suggested a suspended sentence with conditions.