A “jealous and controlling” barber threatened to skin his girlfriend alive at knife-point if she refused to hand over her Facebook password.

Gregory Robinson also said he'd “chop her up” if she didn’t choose a window to throw herself out of.

The 41-year-old has now been jailed for two years after pleading guilty at Canterbury Crown Court to causing actual bodily harm and dangerous driving.

The court heard Robinson was in the midst of a drink and drug binge and rifling through her mobile before he attacked her in her sleep.

Prosecutors explained she woke up with Robinson repeatedly punching her and demanding her log in details.

Kieran Brand continued: “He then got a knife and said if you don’t give me your password I’m going to cut you.”

Furious Robinson then repeatedly thrust the blade towards her face, smashed her over the head with the handle, and pinned her down by the throat with his knee, Mr Brand said.

During the assault the woman received a small wound to the back of her head and cut to her hand.

He then grabbed another blade “and said it is his skinning knife and that he was going to chop her up if she didn’t choose a window to jump out of, because she wasn’t going to leave alive,” Mr Brand added.

The court heard Robinson had been up all night binging on drink and drugs, using her phone to spy on her social media.

He changed her Facebook password, forgetting he had done so moments afterwards, before terrorising the woman for her log in details.

When she escaped the home in Ramsgate Robinson made an attempt to evade the authorities, resulting in a dangerous town centre pursuit, with a police officer being knocked to the floor.

Police spotted the thug inside his stationary black Mercedes in King Street the next day, then two patrol cars boxed him in as one officer walked to the driver side window.

A police officer was knocked down as they attempted to arrest Robinson in Ramsgate. Video credit: Jack Davidson

A third police car suddenly accelerated into the back of Robinson, sending the officer on foot into the air, and freeing up the Mercedes.

Recorder Stuart Trimmer QC dubbed Robinson’s behaviour “inexcusable”, “abusive” and “likely to cause serious injury.

“The occasioning of actual bodily harm seems to have its root in excessive and entirely unreasonable jealousy,” he added.

“As you started pushing police cars about with your car the chances of putting someone at harm is plain, it is obvious that this sort of behaviour can result in substantial injury to people.”

Phil Rowley, mitigating, explained Robinson kept his speed low, with the third patrol car “introducing speed” as part of a “tactical manoeuvre.”

He added: “(Robinson) forms the view that his conduct was to some extent the impact of his living arrangements brought on by the pandemic.

“Intoxicants had become a feature of the relationship.

“He will seek to return to work, look after his children, and live a productive life.”

Robinson, of Meridian Close, Ramsgate, was jailed for two years for his actions in February and has been handed a two-year driving disqualification alongside a five-year restraining order.

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