A thug who threatened to reduce his partner to “a cabbage in a wheelchair” if she left him has been jailed.

Plasterer Warren Lampety subjected his former girlfriend, a Sheerness carer, to physical and psychological abuse during their relationship, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Rio Pahlavanpour said the 32-year-old, of no fixed address, threatened to shoot her, burn down her house and the homes of family members.

He told her if she ever left him “I will make sure I will hurt you so that you are a cabbage in a wheelchair which will be worse than killing you.”

He was jailed for 21 months after admitting controlling behaviour and assault and cultivating cannabis.

The court heard how, last October, Lampety and his girlfriend had gone out for the evening where they met up with another man.

He said she and her male friend had gone to a supermarket to buy cigarettes - but Lampety accused her of “sneaking off with him”.

“He then strikes her to the head three times - and causing lumps,” Mr Pahlavanpour added. “She was due to go to Italy but the defendant made threats to her, including burning down the chalet and she feared he would stop her going. So she went straight to the airport from work to avoid contact with him.”

While away he contacted her holidaying friends through Facebook and sold three of her TVs.

Mr Pahlavanpour added that when she was at work or in church, Lampety would demand she return immediately and at times prohibited her from seeing her daughter.

“That included a time when she was due to see her daughter for her birthday. He took her mobile phone and used it to text her daughter while pretending to be her.”

Lampety also turned up at her work, accusing her of hiding a man there.

Kieran Brand, defending, said Lampety’s behaviour was due to a long history of drug misuse which began when he was 11.

He is now banned from going to the victim’s home for five years.

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