A MAN who threatened to kill his sister’s husband while armed with a knife was jailed for a year.

Abdullah Rahmati, of Hockmore Tower, Pound Way, Cowley, ‘flew into a rage’ after realising $10,000 he thought would be transferred to him from his father in Afghanistan had not been paid, Oxford Crown Court heard last Tuesday.

Jailing the 29-year-old for 12 months, Judge Ian Pringle QC said: “You kicked the front door screaming ‘call the police, call whoever you want. I have got a knife, I will kill your husband’.”

He also made a restraining order for Rahmati not to contact his sister or husband by any means and not to go to Heather Place in Oxford.

Prosecutor Henry James told the court Rahmati spent his youth in the UK, but went back to Afghanistan about a year ago, returning a couple of weeks before his arrest.

He said on March 6 the defendant went to visit his sister in Oxford and told her their father should have paid $10,000 to her to pay him.

After Rahmati spoke to their father, he realised the money would not be transferred.

The court heard that on March 9, Rahmati returned to his sister’s house and became abusive, calling her husband the ‘son of a donkey’ and the ‘son of a dog’.

Mr James said there were children present.

The next day in the early evening, the defendant, ‘clearly very angry’, returned, kicking the front door.

Mr James said his sister’s family were ‘terrified’ and that the door was being held shut by its chain as Rahmati started ‘bashing it with his fist and knife’ and made threats to ‘kill her husband’.

Police later found the defendant, a father-of-two, after he left the property with the knife on him.

Mr James added: “The crown say this a very serious case. He attended the day before, he made threats the day before.”

Defending, Tim Greaves said Rahmati came to this country when he was 13.

He added: “He had no intention to use the item [the knife] or brandish the item [the knife].”

Rahmati has earlier pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a bladed article in a public place at Oxford Magistrates’ Court.