A Wren Kitchens worker punched his partner in the face before stabbing her in the buttock because he thought she had kissed someone else.

Osvaldo Monteiro, 45, began to interrogate his partner on July 14 last year after hearing she had kissed someone else in a club the night before.

Monteiro, who works at Barton-based Wren Kitchens, then punched her twice in the face before stabbing her near her buttock.

Judge Ahmed Nadim told Grimsby Crown Court Monteiro was "angry" and "fuelled by jealousy" at the time of the attack.

He said: "Carrying a knife he went to the bedroom where his partner was holding their nine-month-old child. He was angry and shouting abuse so their daughter came and took the child from her mother fearing the child would be at risk. The situation escalated."

The woman was left with a wound and two bruised eye sockets.

When Monteiro was arrested for the attack he then managed escape from custody, telling a police officer he "needed a drink" before pushing past him and "making a run for it."

Monteiro, of Scunthorpe, was at large for four days before he handed himself in.

He pleaded guilty to escaping from custody and breaching a suspended sentence but was found guilty of wounding following a trial earlier this week.

He was jailed after a trial at Grimsby Crown Court
He was jailed after a trial at Grimsby Crown Court

The court heard Monteiro has previous convictions for attempting to escape from custody and, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and battery. The latter offences were committed against the same complainant as the wounding.

However, Craig Lowe mitigating said that since July last year, he has managed to stay out of trouble.

His now former partner, and the victim of the assault, told the court Monteiro was a good father to their four children despite the couple's history.

She said: "He has always seen the children and I have no concerns leaving them with him. They always come back happy and look forward to spending time with him.

"He has not caused me any issues since and has not contacted me. I do not want a restraining order. I can't describe the impact that him going to prison will have on my children. I have told them I will take them to see him but I don't know when that will be possible because of Covid-19.

"I feel torn. I know he should be punished but it has been a full year now."

Mr Lowe told the court there had been six character references written to Judge Nadim about Monteiro.

He said that in the letters Monteiro had been described as "hard working, mature, loving man who was committed to his family."

Mr Lowe added: "He is respected throughout the community. The complainant has described the impact on the children if he went to prison as extreme and it is clear there is a lot of water underneath the bridge for them as the offence took place over a year ago."

Jailing Monteiro for two years, Judge Nadim told him: "You violated the trust and security that should exist in an intimate relationship. An escalation of violence used against her in the past occurred when you were subject to a suspended sentence supervision order.

"You punched her and used a knife on her, a knife that you had taken into that room and the inference must be that you prepared yourself for the eventuality of its use. It was aggressive and violent behaviour which took place within the earshot of three very young and vulnerable children."