By Tracy Neal, Open Justice multimedia journalist A man who held a woman hostage at gunpoint during a 15-hour standoff with police in Nelson says he knew he could have died that day, but at the time it didn’t faze him. “I felt, on that day, things weren’t going to end well for me,” Phillip Clinton Mant told the Parole Board from a room at Rolleston Prison in Canterbury this morning. He told the woman, whom he also threatened to blow up with a homemade bomb, that they would “both be leaving the house in coffins”. Her 80-year-old father had been “herded into the house and forced on the floor” at gunpoint and lay terrified at the thought he might see his daughter die in front of him. Mant was sentenced last July to five years and two months in prison for what was described as “horrifying violence” in August 2024. The victim said at sentencing she remained terrified for her safety upon his release from jail.…