A 44-year-old man attacked his ex-girlfriend and a female door supervisor at a pub in Newton Abbot six days before Christmas.
Drunken Spencer Cooper was upset by the end of the relationship with Katherine Hockings and tried to speak to her in the White Hart pub.
She refused to talk to him and he grabbed her and twisted her arm.
Doorwoman Wendy Moon tried to calm him down but he grabbed her by the throat and bystanders came to her aid.
A day later Cooper, of Winner Street, Paignton, returned to make his peace with Miss Moon.
As he gave her a hug, she realised he had a sharp kitchen knife in the back of his waistband and seized it.
Police were called and he was angry and said he was taking the knife home after using it to carve a Christmas turkey.
Miss Hockings said in a statement to Exeter Crown Court that she knows what Cooper is capable of. That is what scares her when she is alone in her home in the town centre.
Recorder Martin Meeke QC said Cooper’s ‘behaviour to his ex-partners and women in general is unacceptable’.
Cooper admitted two assault charges against the two women and one of carrying a knife in a public place.
The court heard this was his fifth battery offence going back to 2002.
The judge said: 'I find it totally unacceptable a man of your build should even lay hands on a woman. Your behaviour has to stop.'
He jailed him for 13 weeks, suspended for two years, gave him a three-month weekend night-time curfew and a rehabilitation order.
He also made a five-year restraining order banning any contact with the two women and not to go to or loiter near Miss Hockings’ home in Newton Abbot town centre.