Overview
- Teesside Crown Court jailed Paul Armstrong, 41, for 22 months and issued a five-year restraining order.
- He admitted threats to kill and affray over a June 14 incident in Hartlepool and was convicted of an April 20 Scarborough assault by beating.
- Prosecutors said he put an air-rifle barrel in his mouth, threatened his partner, and told police he would "shoot the lot of you" as armed officers responded.
- Defence said he had longstanding mental-health problems, had missed anti-psychotic medication, and had been drinking; he told officers he heard voices and intended to kill himself.
- Judge Tom Mitchell called him a bully and a hothead, stressing the seriousness of the domestic abuse and the weapons threats.