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A controlling bully "intent on revenge" assaulted his ex-wife as she clutched a child outside a children's nursery.

Jaroslaw Biraga kicked and punched her, and when she escaped he second guessed where she was going and was waiting she arrived.

Biraga, 35, opened the car door and revealed that under his jacket he was carrying a knife with a flat blade up to 15cm long.

He told her: "I don't care about anything any more."

After the December 21 incident in Wrexham - in which he had also threatened to smash up a nursery nurse's car - Biraga was caught on December 23 driving while disqualified and in possession of amphetamines.

In February, he was found hiding under a vehicle in Larch Road, Wrexham, with a knife and a meat cleaver.

Henry Hills, defending Biraga at Mold crown court, said he had no previous convictions in the UK, and that his recent behaviour represented a change for the worse.

The problems arose from not being able to see his child, Mr Hills said, adding: "He was unable to control his frustration and anger."

Biraga, of Vernon Street in Wrexham, accepted his behaviour was wholly inappropriate.

He had spent some time in Germany working to support his family when they were in Poland, and after that they moved to the UK.

He had denied a pubic order offence, an assault and possessing a knife at the magistrates' court but had been convicted and sent to |Mold Crown Court for sentence.

He had admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance on the same date, and again two days later.

He also admitted being equipped to steal and possessing the knife and meat cleaver.

Judge Niclas Parry jailed Biraga for two years and made a five year restraining order under which he is not to contact his former wife in any way.

He will be banned from driving for 18 months when he gets out of prison.