A VIOLENT domestic incident in which a man smashed a window to break into a house in Shipley was shown on the BBC series Bradford on Duty, a court heard today.

Wesley Millington was jailed for two years and three months after traumatising his former partner who defended herself by stabbing him twice in the leg.

Millington’s barrister, James Littlehales, said that footage taken at the address was aired on national television meaning that the defendant's case could not have been heard in Bradford had it gone to trial.

He pleaded guilty to affray at the house on December 6 last year and was imprisoned after spending ten months remanded in custody.

Prosecutor, Jessica Heggie, said the victim was in a short relationship with Millington who burst through the kitchen door at her home late in the evening.

They argued and he left when she threatened to call the police.

Millington, 38, of Cramlington, Northumberland, then demanded his bag from the address. He threw things outside the property and smashed the kitchen window.

He leant inside and hurled plates and ornaments before climbing in through the smashed pane and grabbing a knife.

Miss Heggie said that he was stabbed twice in the leg by the woman during the incident.

Millington was in breach of a 14-month suspended sentence for a causing actual bodily harm in an incident of domestic violence committed in Newcastle.

He had 22 previous convictions for 49 offences, including three for offences against the person.

Mr Littlehales said that Millington went to the house that night to talk to his former partner.

He says he was stabbed when being ejected from the property the first time. There was no dispute that there were two stab wounds to his leg and film of the incident supported his account.

Millington accepted that he broke in through the kitchen window. He was trying to retrieve the bag with his work tools in it.

He picked up the knife inside the house. It was the same one that had been used to stab him and he quickly put it down.

Millington had been in custody on remand for ten months, the equivalent of a 20-month prison sentence, Mr Littlehales said.

He was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment for the affray and 11 months of the suspended sentence was activated, making a total jail term of 27 months.

A restraining order was made for five years preventing him from contacting the woman directly or going anywhere near her address.