A couple awoke to find an intruder using their toilet who then threatened to kill them both.
During a terrifying ordeal a man had to jump for his life out of a window as Bahaa Kadum tried to batter down a bedroom door to reach him with a kitchen knife.
After the man escaped to get help Kadum took his girlfriend hostage. He threatened to kill the woman and himself.
The victims were in bed when they were awoken at 3am at their home in Apsley Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, hearing someone climbing the stairs.
Startled the woman got up and walked onto the landing where she saw Kadum stood in the bathroom urinating in the toilet. She dashed back to the bedroom to alert her boyfriend.
The victims repeatedly asked Kadum how he had got into the house, but he ignored them and went downstairs searching through kitchen drawers before he pulled out the largest kitchen knife in the house.
Kadum then walked back upstairs and told the woman he was going to stab her boyfriend.
Alerted by the sound of Kadum ascending the stairs the man was able to lock himself in the bedroom whilst Kadum repeatedly banged on the door threatening to kill him.
The man jumped out of the first floor window and ran to get help. Kadum chased after the man but failed to catch up with him and returned to the property where he took the woman hostage and made repeated threats to kill both her and himself.
The woman's boyfriend ran half a mile down the road and managed to get help from a passer-by who was able to call the police. Officers swiftly arrived and Kadum was arrested. The bizarre incident happened on October 20th last year.
Today Kadum , 26, of Knowle Avenue, Ashton-under-Lyne was sentenced to five years and three months imprisonment after pleading guilty to one count of false imprisonment and two counts of making threats to kill.
Detective Constable Simon Cook of GMP’s Tameside district, said: “This was a terrifying ordeal for both victims who were left fearing for their life. Thankfully, neither victim sustained any serious injuries that evening but the outcome could have been completely different had the man not been able to flag down a passer-by to alert police.
“Kadum’s behaviour that evening was erratic and abhorrent and he is quite clearly a dangerous individual. Nobody should be made to feel unsafe in their own home so I am glad we have been able to remove this man from our streets and put him behind bars – where he’ll have plenty of time to think over his behaviour.
