A St George’s man was remanded this morning after he admitted threatening the mother of his estranged girlfriend.

Kevin Simmons, 22, also admitted having with him a bladed article, a knife, when the offence occurred.

Prosecutor Carrington Mahoney told Magistrates’ Court that on October 23, a Barrack Close, St George’s woman saw Simmons standing outside her daughter’s bedroom window.

She asked him what he wanted, saying he was not welcome on the property, and he replied: “Open that window. If you don’t, I will break it and beat the s*** out of you.”

The woman opened the window but then called the police, causing Simmons to run away from the property, shouting: “I’m going to get you.”

He was later found by police and arrested for using threatening words. When police searched him, they discovered a brown-handled folding knife with a 3.8in blade in his pants pocket.

Simmons, who is unemployed, told the court that he does daily “patrols” around the Island by himself, and began to carry the knife for his own protection after being robbed.

However, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner responded: “That is exactly what the law is intended to prevent.”

Mr Warner ordered both a social inquiry report and a psychiatric report on Simmons, remanding him into custody until December for sentencing.