A 17 year old youth who threatened to kill his former girlfriend's father has been jailed for two and a half years.

Daniel Sidney Andrews, care of the prison, admitted unlawful detention, threats to kill, actual bodily harm, affray and criminal damage.

Linda Watts prosecuting said on December 15th last year at around 9.30pm, the defendant made his former girlfriend drive him around the countryside when he was carrying five knives.

Stuart Peters reports:

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Andrews had earlier approached a group of youths and made threats to them. He told his girlfriend he was going to kill her father, he hit her several times while she was driving him around and subsequently kicked her car.

His advocate said the defendant's former girlfriend had given birth to their son ten weeks earlier and she had denied him access. He was troubled young man who needed professional help and assistance.

Deemster Doyle told Andrews it was a truly terrifying ordeal for the victim, but he noted that he had pleaded guilty thereby saving her the trauma of re-living the nightmare.

Andrews, who was in the care of social services at the time, admitted he didn't know what to do when he lost his temper.