A 21-YEAR-OLD man who twice throttled his ex-fiancee until she passed out has been locked up for four years by a judge who told the attacker he “frightened” him.

Lloyd Browning attacked Charlotte Jones at her home in Blackbird Leys, Oxford, and brandished a knife saying he would kill her.

Browning, of Blackwater Way, Didcot, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday having earlier admitted two counts of actual bodily harm, and charges of theft and possessing a bladed article in a public place.

Jon Sank, prosecuting, said the defendant had been in a relationship “with a history of jealousy” with the victim for two years, before attacking her on the day they split up in February.

He said: “He put his arm round her neck and squeezed hard, pulling her backwards on to the sofa. His grip tightened around her neck and she struggled to free herself, but he would not let go.

“She couldn’t breathe properly and passed out, waking up lying on the floor and found Mr Browning in the kitchen.

“He picked up a knife and cut his own arms stating he wanted to kill himself.”

On February 26, Browning went round to the victim’s address and removed a three-inch kitchen knife from his bag.

Mr Sank said: “He stated he would leave it at the address to use to slit the throats of Charlotte Jones and her sister.”

On March 8, he again strangled his ex-fiancee until she passed out.

He took £30 cash and a mobile phone from her pocket as she lay unconscious.

Graeme Logan, defending, said his client was “a young man who needs help with the way in which he conducts himself and has conducted himself.”

Judge Julian Hall told Browning: “You frighten me.

“You were ditched by your girlfriend... you tried to strangle her and left her unconscious, and you tried it again.

“There’s a very frightening statement from your own sister who says that when she visited you on remand you were still set on killing Charlotte, and that your plan hadn’t gone to plan.”

He sent him to a young offenders’ institution for four years, with an additional one-year extended period of licence.