"Your daughter won't have a mum after tonight": 'Vile monster' threatened to kill ex-partner during 'reign of terror'

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A "vile monster" subjected his ex-partner to a "reign of terror", breaking into her home to beat her up and threatening to kill her.

Shane Costello-Collins, from Wythenshawe, started his campaign of hatred against his former partner when he turned up at her workplace on September 4 last year.

Anna Chestnutt, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court the 26-year-old had arrived at his ex-partner's workplace at around 9pm, and was already intoxicated when he started shouting at her, after she asked him to stop spitting on the ground.

He spat at her chest, and shouted racial slurs at her. He then threatened to kill her, before saying: "I'm going to slice you and leave you with marks". When she tried to leave, he threw beer over her before spitting in her face.

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On September 25, Costello-Collins turned up to his former partner's house at 10.30pm uninvited, and as her daughter was away for the evening she agreed to speak with him. He started to apologise for his actions a few weeks earlier, claiming not to remember what he'd done. When she called him a narcissist, he "flipped" and punched a light switch, before following his former partner upstairs as he accused her of cheating on him.

He then punched a hole in the bedroom wall, prompting a neighbour to call the police. He then grabbed the contents of a black bin bag and threw it over his former partner's front door. He returned to the house on October 17, knocking on the door at 3am, waking his ex up, before he started banging and shouting to get her attention, calling her a "fat sl*g" and asking who was with her.

When his partner didn't answer, as she hoped he would