A DUMPED thug who threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new man and said he’d be “up on a murder charge” has been jailed.

Carl Booth was already on a suspended sentence for deliberately reversing his 4x4 into his former partner’s home when he turned up drunk to the house she shared with her new boyfriend three days after Christmas.

Swindon Crown Court heard the 40-year-old’s ex had been calming her two-week old baby in the early hours when she heard Booth banging on the front door of her home on Chalcot Road, Badbury Park.

He directed his anger and the new boyfriend, yelling: “I’m going to kill you. Come out here.”

Booth added: “Come out here. I’m going to kill you. Come on, be a man. I’m going to cut you. I’m going to stab you. Come on, let’s have it.”

When the police arrived the bearded aggressor swore revenge on his rival: “I’m going to be up on a murder charge. I’ll be back for you.”

He sobered up and, when he was interviewed by police the next day, claimed to have no memory of the incident.

The recovering alcoholic had fallen off the wagon when he was invited out for a Christmas drink with a friend. He told officers he was very sorry and would never have made good on his threat to kill his ex’s new partner.

Booth, of Spring Close, had pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to making threats to kill. He admitted breaching the terms of his suspended sentence order.

Tony Bignall, defending, said his client had been sent abusive text messages by his ex’s new partner. He felt the man was preventing him from seeing his two children, now aged five and three.

But the barrister acknowledged that Booth should have known better than to rise to the provocation.

His client was remorseful and had suffered from alcoholism and depression in the past. He had made good progress on his suspended sentence order, completing all of the 100 hours of unpaid work given to him by Judge Peter Crabtree last year.

Booth was sentenced to a total of 10 months imprisonment. Judge Jason Taylor QC said: “The reality is - and I can’t get away from this – that you committed this just five months into a suspended sentence order against the same victim.” He acknowledged Booth had been provoked to an extent, but said: “You must have known and I suspect would have been told by Judge Crabtree you can’t seek to take matters into your own hands.”

A five year restraining order will ban him from going to Chalcot Road, Badbury Park.