A drunken thug put a former lover through a terrifying six-and-a-half hour ordeal in her own home - making death threats and telling her: "A missing person is only missing if reported."

Bully Jak Barrow kept his ex-girlfriend a prisoner in her Thanet flat – subjecting her to punches, kicks and bites.

Then the 24-year-old roofer took a serrated knife to his sobbing victim's throat and pressed it so hard that the mark could still be seen after she was rescued.

Now Barrow, of no fixed address, has been jailed for a total of 37 months after he admitted false imprisonment, two offences of assault and causing criminal damage to a mobile phone.

Prosecutor Simon Taylor told Canterbury Crown Court how Barrow went to the flat in September last year and knocked on the window.

“As she opened the door to her home, he lunged at her and grabbed her by the hair before dragging her inside and locking the door. He then ordered her to sit down or he would kill her.”

The court heard how from 10pm to 4.30am, and after smashing her mobile phone to prevent her ringing for help, he dragged his terrified victim around the flat – even making her kneel next to him and watch him urinate.

Mr Taylor added: “The incident was prolonged and violent. The defendant struck and bit the complainant in multiple places about her body.

“At one stage, he has grabbed a carving knife from the kitchenette and, having done so, he placed it to her neck and applied pressure before making death threats”

The thug then told her menacingly: “No-one knows where I am... a missing person is only missing if reported.”

During the night Barrow then repeatedly kicked her in the groin and punched her – as neighbours later reported hearing “stomach-curdling noises”.

“The incident was prolonged and violent. The defendant struck and bit the complainant in multiple places about her body" - Simon Taylor

But Mr Taylor said she managed to escape from the flat only to be chased into the street and attacked again.

When other residents shouted out after hearing her sobs and screaming, Barrow stopped the assault and ran away with his victim’s handbag.

The judge, Recorder Janet Bignell QC told him: “You assaulted your victim in a place where she was entitled to feel safe and you subjected her to repeated violence.”

Barrow was also ordered to stay away from her for five years.