A Kitchener woman says she still wants to see her grandson, even after he held a pocket knife to her throat.

“I’m fine with him having contact,” she told Justice Craig Parry in Kitchener court. “I’m really the only person in the family left that he can call on.”

In his grandmother’s house in February, the man, 31, got into a heated argument with her after he failed to return her car on time.

When he threatened to kill her, she “picked up a baseball bat to defend herself,” said Crown prosecutor Ashley Noble.

He then held a pocket knife to her throat. His grandmother was not injured.

“She was not afraid,” defence lawyer Hal Mattson said Wednesday. “She knew nothing was going to happen. She knows how to deal with him.”

The man was high on crack cocaine. He fled and police found him hidi

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