A "vile monster" subjected his ex-partner to a "reign of terror", breaking into her home to beat her up and threatening to kill her.
Shane Costello-Collins, from Wythenshawe, started his campaign of hatred against his former partner when he turned up at her workplace on September 4 last year.
Anna Chestnutt, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court the 26-year-old had arrived at his ex-partner's workplace at around 9pm, and was already intoxicated when he started shouting at her, after she asked him to stop spitting on the ground.
He spat at her chest, and shouted racial slurs at her. He then threatened to kill her, before saying: "I'm going to slice you and leave you with marks". When she tried to leave, he threw beer over her before spitting in her face.
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On September 25, Costello-Collins turned up to his former partner's house at 10.30pm uninvited, and as her daughter was away for the evening she agreed to speak with him. He started to apologise for his actions a few weeks earlier, claiming not to remember what he'd done. When she called him a narcissist, he "flipped" and punched a light switch, before following his former partner upstairs as he accused her of cheating on him.
He then punched a hole in the bedroom wall, prompting a neighbour to call the police. He then grabbed the contents of a black bin bag and threw it over his former partner's front door. He returned to the house on October 17, knocking on the door at 3am, waking his ex up, before he started banging and shouting to get her attention, calling her a "fat sl*g" and asking who was with her.
When his partner didn't answer, as she hoped he would go away if she stayed silent, he broke into her home, pinning her to the floor and then grabbing her by the hair. He dragged her back upstairs when she tried to flee, calling her a "wh**e" and a "sl*g" and using racial slurs again. He then told his ex partner her daughter "won't have a mum after tonight".
He pushed his partner onto the bed and refused to let her get up, pushing her back down every time she tried to leave. When she saw the blue lights of the police, she started screaming, and Costello-Collins put his hand over her mouth to keep her quiet, saying: "scream again I promise I will kill you."
On November 17, Costello-Collins left his former partner a series of voicemails, calling her racial slurs, and threatening to kill her once again. He called his ex a "dirty little sl*g". Half an hour later, he turned up at the house, and tried to get in to speak with his ex-partner. She called the police immediately and when they arrived, Costello-Collins tried to hide in a neighbour's garden.
When he was arrested, he attempted to jump out of the police van, narrowly avoiding headbutting one of the officers who had detained him, before spitting at them with such frequency officers were forced to place a spit hood on him. His behaviour was so volatile that he had to be placed in rip-proof clothing when he was taken into custody.
His ex-partner attempted to read her victim impact statement in court, but when she broke down in tears she asked Ms Chestnutt to read it instead. It said: "I was made a high risk domestic abuse victim by Shane, my ex-partner, who continued his waves of crime against me, affecting me on not only a personal but a professional level. I felt scared, not only for me but for others around me because I know what Shane's capable of. I changed my whole routine, even my shopping days, I've had a set weekly routine for years and this has all been turned upside down all because of Shane.
"My daughter has had to receive domestic violence counselling at school, something no child should have to go through. She reported being scared for her mum. I'm finally getting my life back on track and fear the day he is released from prison. I don't know what lengths he will go to before he puts an end to this reign of terror, I fear for myself and my daughter. I want nothing more to do with this vile monster."
Costello-Collins has 17 prior convictions for 29 offences, including eight offences of violence between 2013-2017. In 2017 he was sent to prison for 18 weeks and handed a restraining order for an offence relating to a past partner, before he was jailed for two-and-a-half years later that year for supplying class A drugs. He was also given a six month suspended sentence for dangerous driving last year, which he pleaded guilty to breaching.
Ben Kautman, defending, said: "He's still a relatively young man at 26 years of age and he will benefit from help to ensure that this sort of behaviour is not replicated in future relationships. There can be no doubt that this relationship was certainly a toxic one with extreme highs and lows involving jealously."
Recorder Harris sentenced Costello-Collins, of Greatfield Road, to 18 months imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage, assault by beating, a section 39 assault, two counts of racially aggravated harassment, two counts of assaulting an emergency worker, and breach of a suspended sentence. Costello-Collins will serve a month and a half longer in prison before he can be released on license.
Recorder Harris outlined the defendant's crimes before him, and said of the last incident: "Like the bully and the coward you are you ran away from her address and tried to hide in a garden. There is a pattern here and it's quite clear that your former partner has suffered. You have made the victim's life insufferable. You express some remorse and say you're ashamed of your racist remarks. There is a proven history of violence and threats in a domestic context and I have to consider that."
A restraining order, preventing Costello-Collins from contacting his former partner for ten years or going within 20m of her home, was also implemented.
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