A MAN who attacked a ‘Good Samaritan’ with a lump hammer, assaulted his ex-girlfriend and trashed her house has been jailed.

Burnley Crown Court heard how Devon Junior Qualice Gordon, 30, was ‘out of control’ during the ‘bizarre’ incident at the house of Shabana Khan.

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The court heard how the couple, who had an on-off relationship for the previous six years, had been invited to a meal at Gordon’s mum’s house on August 26.

But they decided not to go after discovering his ex-girlfriend, who has a restraining order against him following an incident of battery, was there.

Prosecutor Stephen Parker said the couple went back to Miss Khan’s house in Brush Street, Burnley, and Gordon put his two children and her 18-month child to bed.

At around midnight Gordon, of Heap Street, Burnley, came downstairs in an angry mood and started behaving ‘oddly’, the court was told.

Mr Parker said: “He said something along the lines of ‘let’s play a game’.

He put a mirror in front of the TV. She went and moved the mirror and that made him worse.

“He then went into the kitchen and picked up a knife, came back into the living room and began waving it around.

“She was scared at that stage and to protect herself she went into the kitchen and picked up a knife. She told him they would both die.”

Mr Parker said that escalated into a big row and Gordon went upstairs to get his two children and put them outside in just their underwear.

The court heard as the pair were screaming at each other, Gordon’s children were outside crying.

The prosecution said it was at that point Gordon then went into the kitchen and grabbed the lump hammer from a toolbox.

He smashed two holes in the chimney breast and also hit the living room floor, causing around £2,000 of damage.

The court was told at one point Miss Khan could be seen outside the house clutching the TV.

Mr Parker told the court that during the commotion Steven Rickwood had been returning home from a night out when he came across the incident and went inside the house to try to calm Gordon but was hit in the side of the head with a single hammer blow.

At that point the children were in the living room.

Mr Rickwood went outside to call the police and when officers arrived Gordon was attempting to hide the weapon, the court heard.

During police interview Gordon said there was a strange smoke coming from somewhere in the living room and he smashed the holes in the wall to try and find out where it was coming from.

He also claimed he hit Rickwood in self defence after he refused to leave his house.

The court heard that Mr Rickwood received multiple fractures to his eyesocket and cheekbone. Such were his injuries that his own children were left in distress because of their father’s disfigured face, Mr Parker said.

The court was told about an assault by Gordon on Ms Khan four days earlier where he had pulled her hair, ripped her T-shirt, punched her arm and kicked her in the back.

Defending, Phil Holden said his client had acted ‘out of character’. in relation to the incident in the house.

He said: “There were a bizarre set of circumstances involved in that house on that night.

"A passer-by came into that house in the wee small hours uninvited. Mr Gordon can say it was not a pre-meditated attack.”

Gordon pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm, assault by beating and damaging property.

Judge, Recorder Andre Nuttall sentenced Gordon to 30 months’ imprisonment and imposed an indefinite restraining order banning him from contacting Miss Khan.

Recorder Nuttall said: “This must have been an extraordinarily frightening incident. You were completely out of control.”