This is the terrifying moment a man pulls out a chainsaw after a dispute between neighbours in a Yorkshire street turned into shocking violence.

Video shot on a mobile phone shows how thug Stewart Palmer tried to burst into the home of 28-year-old mother Jess Appleby while wielding the noisy power tool.

The brawl came during an ongoing dispute between neighbours on the street.

After Palmer was jailed for the attack, Ms Appleby's partner Dean Brown told how the family, including Ms Appleby's young son Archie, could have been seriously injured if he had not managed to block the doorway.

Footage captured the moment Stewart Palmer threatened his neighbour with a chainsaw

Mr Brown said: 'It shook me up for a while because he nearly got in the kitchen.

'If I hadn't have kicked him and shut the door he would have cut us all up with that chainsaw. I had to look after her and her son. I did what I had to do.'

Ms Appleby wrote on Facebook that she had been 'terrorised day in day out' when she lived on the street in Barnsley and the chainsaw incident led to her moving house.

A series of three videos - shot by Ms Appleby and a neighbour - shows the confrontation quickly escalating from an argument in her front garden to a fist fight.

Footage shows Palmer - wearing an Ellesse zip-up top - approaching the woman's window as a child shouts 'you just spat at me' from inside.

The young mother and model charges out of the house through a side gate to confront him, repeatedly saying 'get off my property' as she tries to push him away. Mr Brown then comes out and the two men begin fighting.

His actions came after a brawl between neighbours in a street in Barnsley, South Yorkshire

The video shows how the row quickly escalated into violence, with two couples fighting

Footage filmed by the next-door neighbour shows the fracas unfolding, with the two women trading blows whilst witnesses egg them on and children in the background are heard crying.

Others run in to break it up but struggle to separate the two duelling women, and soon the two men start fighting again.

Eventually the situation begins to calm down but the two couples continue to exchange accusations over the garden fence.

And, at this point, Palmer walks away.

But another clip shows him with a roaring chainsaw, charging up to the house before the video cuts out.

The footage was shot when Palmer came to the home of Jessica Appleby and her family

Chainsaw-wielding Palmer was jailed for two years for affray and having an offensive weapon

The shocking violence unfolded in the residential Upper Forest Road in Barnsley

A spokesman for the CPS confirmed Palmer was jailed for the shocking attack.

The spokesman said: 'Stewart Palmer was jailed on July 20 at Sheffield Crown Court for 24 months.

'He was charged with affray, having an offensive weapon and criminal damage to property.'

The footage is the latest to show shocking extremes of violence in Britain, with critics saying the country is turning into the 'Wild West'.

A week in Wild West Britain: From mobs filmed kicking police officers to London's 102nd murder inquiry

The chainsaw footage emerged at the end of the depressing week yob attacks, murders and beatings around the country.

The Bank Holiday weekend saw 373 people arrested during London's Notting Hill Carnival, with police seizing 69 weapons including 49 knives, acid and a taser.

Video then emerged of a woman being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head on a train after an argument on the way home from the event turned violent.

Worse was then to come on Tuesday when a mob was filmed shouting at and kicking two police officers who were trying to arrest a resisting suspect in McDonald's in Hackey, east London.

The footage, in which police were forced to taser two men, sparked a debate about the lack of respect officers receive and general disdain shown to authority.

As if to underline the concerns, on Wednesday, two suspected burglars brandished a gun at police and tried to break their accomplice free from the back of a patrol van.

The gang had been disturbed while breaking in to a phone shop in Peckham, south-east London, in the early hours of Wednesday..

One of them was taken to his house for a search but when the police van left two men pulled up alongside on a moped and brandished a gun.

Today a woman in her 60s became the 102nd victim to be killed in London this year as the violent crimewave continued.

Police were called to the woman's home in Bickley, in Bromley, south east London, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police found this gruesome-looking weapon on a robbery suspect yesterday

Speaking yesterday, the commissioner of the Met Police, Cressida Dick, denied parts of the capital are 'no go areas' for police, but admitted that locals do sometimes cheer for criminals being tackled by her officers.

She added: 'A couple of weeks ago officers were under enormous attack and were being filmed and people were screaming and shouting and cheering when somebody got away who appears to have had a gun. This is wrong.'

'But people I think should understand that most officers, most of the time, don't encounter that. This isn't everybody in Hackney. This isn't the way things are across London.

'There are no "no go areas". Police officers are able to go about their business very well.'