A TERRIFIED woman held the door shut on her violent former partner as he stabbed through the wood with a knife.

The woman managed to keep angry Laszlo Kolompar at bay for two minutes, giving her frightened 10-year-old son and mother time to escape their home and flee to neighbours for safety.

Bolton Crown Court heard how Kolompar smashed his way into the Uganda Street, Great Lever, terraced house where his ex-partner lived on October 3 last year.

At the time the 49-year-old was released under investigation by police after being arrested for a campaign of stalking and harassing her in August.

Craig MacGregor, prosecuting, told how Kolompar and his partner, together with their son, moved to Bolton from Hungary in 2015 but a year later the relationship broke down and he returned to his home country.

His partner remained in the UK but in 2019 began receiving threatening messages from him and he then returned to Bolton.

“In the Autumn of 2020 Mr Kolompar started stalking his former partner,” said Mr MacGregor, adding that she had to start taking taxis to work to avoid him and, when she encountered him in the street he would chase her, on one occasion telling her: “I will kill you. I will put you in the ground. You won’t have a son.”

His behaviour was reported to the police and on August 27 last year he was arrested, but then bailed whilst a decision about charges was made.

Mr MacGregor told how his victim was at home with her mother at son at 10.45am on October 3.

The two women were downstairs when they heard several loud bangs.

"Neighbours saw Mr Kolompar with a hammer in his hand, smashing the downstairs window, which he then climbed into," said Mr MacGregor.

His victim shut an internal door on him and leant against it, shouting for her son, who was upstairs, to get out of the house.

Kolompar kept banging on the door and screaming at her in Hungarian, "I'm here now. I'm going to kill you. I'm going to stick the knife in you."

"She said she was terrified," said Mr MacGregor. "She tried to hold the door between them shut but she had to lean away at the same time as the defendant was trying to stab, with a knife, through the wood.

"She was in genuine fear for her life. However, she managed to hold that door for a couple of minutes to give her mother and her son a chance to escape.

All three ran from the house and sought refuge at a neighbour's home, only for Kolompar to chase her.

The woman tried to close the neighbour's door but Kolmpar pushed against it.

"He managed to get his arm through the gap and was swinging a knife around," said Mr MacGregor. "Neighbours alerted to the noise managed to restrain the defendant and took the knife off him."

When police arrived to arrest Kolompar, he was still trapped in the door.

Appearing in court via a video link from Forest Bank prison, Kolompar pleaded guilty to harassment, attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, making threats to kill, criminal damage and possessing a knife and a hammer.

Paul Treble, defending, told the Honorary Recorder of Bolton, Judge Martin Walsh: "The defendant deeply regrets what he did. He is ashamed and sorry for it."

He stated that Kolompar, of Battenberg Road, Bolton, had been feeling strong emotions about the breakdown of the relationship and not being able to see his son and had committed the crimes in a rage, rather than with careful, calculated planning against his ex-partner.

"He knows he frightened and scared her," he said. "He understands now why she did not let him see his son but at that time he didn't understand it."

Mr Treble stressed that no one had been physically harmed in the incident.

Judge Walsh will sentence Kolompar on Thursday.