The ex-butler to the Japanese Ambassador now lives in a hostel for single men after a violent knifepoint bust-up with his younger wife wrecked his marriage and gave him a criminal record.
Retired Franciso Quintos, 60, of Cricklewood Broadway, Cricklewood, who suspected she was having an affair, was arrested after a vodka-fueled confrontation at the couple’s matrimonial home.
Quintos, who in March, 2007 received a police caution for assaulting his wife after she smashed their new flat screen television pleaded guilty to affray at Clarkson House, Maysoule Road, Wandsworth on November 21, last year.
“He is a man who has lost absolutely everything,” his lawyer Miss Julia Mackworth told Kingston upon Thames Crown Court.
“He was the butler to the Japanese Ambassador in the Court of St. James' (pictured) and now spends his days drinking beer by himself and thinking back.”
Prosecutor Miss Hannah Duncan told the court it was 1am when Quintos woke his wife and quizzed her about the suspected affair with a work colleague – who she now shares their marital home with.
As their eight year-old daughter slept Quintos threatened to kill the entire family if his suspicions were confirmed.
“He said if he could prove it he would kill them all and returned from the kitchen with a knife,” explained Miss Duncan.
“He pinned his wife to the sofa while pointing the knife at her and said: ‘I will try it now’ and she says she thought he was going to kill her.”
She locked herself in the bedroom and called a friend and police, who arrested Quintos at the address.
Judge Susan Tapping told the defendant: “Your behaviour that night was disgraceful and your eight year-old daughter was in the house at the time.
“You got yourself drunk, you were out of control and took a kitchen knife and threatened your wife.”
Quintos was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for one year and placed under a nine-month supervision order, which includes six months alcohol treatment.
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