Mum fled home after brother's threat to kill

SIBLING LIKE 'BULLDOG ON RAMPAGE' OVER GIRLFRIEND CONVERSATION

- CARL JACKSON Court Reporter

A MUM fled her Birmingham home in terror and left the city after her own brother threatened to kill her.

Kevin Bennett called his sibling in a rage and threatened to kill her for supposedly saying his girlfriend should break up with him.

The 43-year-old refused to back down when their mother got involved, telling her she could “get hurt” if she tried to intervene.

He later wrote grovelling letters of apology to his sister and mum and claimed he could not remember what he said because he had been drinking.

Bennett, from Sheldon Heath Road, Stechford, admitted making threats to kill and a threatening communication offence.

At Birmingham Crown Court he was sentenced to two years and four months and hit with a ten-year restraining order banning him from contact with his sister.

Bennett had called her on August 12 this year using his girlfriend’s telephone.