A teenager threatened to kill two different women, threw a bottle at a woman in a convenience store and assaulted his support workers, a court has heard.

Swansea Crown Court heard that Kaden Kingsbury, who was a resident of Ty Hiraeth care home in Penygroes had breached a restraining order by ringing the first woman’s place of work in Swansea.

When the manager answered he shouted and screamed that he wanted to speak to a female employee there, a restraining order banned him from contacting this woman directly or indirectly.

When his social worker asked him about the calls, he said that he wanted to stab the woman that he had called.

He said that he would stab her with cutlery which he would hide up his shirt. He made stabbing motions while he spoke about this.

The court heard that Kingsbury, 18, had previously been convicted for stalking the same woman.

Between November 2020 and April 2021 he would enter her home uninvited and had been verbally abusive to her husband and son.

He had also visited her place of work and made reference to stabbing, contacted her son via social media and been abusive.

He had turned up at her home banging on the windows, swearing and trying the door handles and had entered her kitchen screaming.

Magistrates imposed a restraining order on February 11, 2022. Kingsbury tried to contact the woman at her place of work on December 6 that year.

In a victim impact statement, the woman said that she had had a ‘meltdown’ following the December phone call and felt that the ‘world was shattered around me’.

She acknowledged Kingsbury’s mental health problems but said she was scared to go out alone and scared for the safety of her children, who had also been affected by the incidents. She added that Kingsbury ‘seemed to know everything’ about her family.

She said that she was tormented by Kingsbury, was constantly looking over her shoulder and lived in fear of what he would do.

“I am petrified that he will carry out the threat to stab me or my husband,” she said.

Kingsbury also admitted throwing a plastic bottle at the head a different woman in the Premier store in Penygroes and shouting at her ‘I want to kill you’, as well as shouting a racial slur while in the store.

The eight assaults he admitted to involved support workers from Ty Hiraeth and one resident. They included biting, headbutting, repeated punching to the back of the head, kicking, pushing and throwing a chair.

In his defence it was said that Kingsbury was remorseful and understood that he had done wrong. He had had a mental impairment and neurodivergent conditions.

It was said that his family were concerned whether he was receiving appropriate support and that if he had that support, these offences may not have been committed.

“The staff at the care home must have been at their wits’ end with your unpredictable and violent behaviour,” said His Honour Judge Huw Rees KC.

He added that the threats to kill were ‘most serious’.

The fact that the offences had been carried out while Kingsbury was on a conditional discharge was an aggravating factor as was the fact that he had made threats to kill the woman who was protected by a restraining order.

Judge Rees imposed a 24-month prison sentence, half of which will be served in a young offenders’ institution before Kingsbury is released on licence.

He revoked the magistrates’ restraining order and imposed a new one, preventing Kingsbury from contacting his victim directly or indirectly, or from entering information about her online, for five years.

“The time has come for you to understand how serious this offending is,” said Judge Rees. “The penny needs to drop as far as you are concerned.”