Extraordinary moment thug attacks a mother with a CHAINSAW during mass brawl

This is the terrifying moment a man pulls out a chainsaw after a dispute between neighbours in a Yorkshire street turned into shocking violence. 

Video shot on a mobile phone shows how thug Stewart Palmer tried to burst into the home of 28-year-old mother Jess Appleby while wielding the noisy power tool.

The brawl came during an ongoing dispute between neighbours on the street. 

After Palmer was jailed for the attack, Ms Appleby's partner Dean Brown told how the family, including Ms Appleby's young son Archie, could have been seriously injured if he had not managed to block the doorway.

Mr Brown said: 'It shook me up for a while because he nearly got in the kitchen.

'If I hadn't have kicked him and shut the door he would have cut us all up with that chainsaw. I had to look after her and her son. I did what I had to do.'

Ms Appleby wrote on Facebook that she had been 'terrorised day in day out' when she lived on the street in Barnsley and the chainsaw incident led to her moving house.

A series of three videos - shot by Ms Appleby and a neighbour - shows the confrontation quickly escalating from an argument in her front garden to a fist fight.

Footage shows Palmer - wearing an Ellesse zip-up top - approaching the woman's window as a child shouts 'you just spat at me' from inside.

The young mother and model charges out of the house through a side gate to confront him, repeatedly saying 'get off my property' as she tries to push him away. Mr Brown then comes out and the two men begin fighting. 

MailOnline