Knifeman’s threats to kill family
A‘RATTLING’ drug user who armed himself with two knives and threatened to kill his mother and brother in a ‘terrifying’ house attack has been jailed.
Nathan Collins turned up at his mother Jacqueline Curry’s house on Lonsdale Street in Accrington on October 17 to ‘ detox from heroin and crack cocaine’, a court heard.
Prosecutor Stephen Parker told Burnley Crown Court that Ms Curry could see Collins was ‘on something’ when he arrived and the next day spotted that he had taken ‘around 28 diazepam tablets’.
Collins, who was wearing a pair of boxer shorts, then accused Ms Curry of taking the tablets, being a ‘s*** mother’ and blaming her ‘for the way he had turned out’, the court heard.
When Collins’ brother Dominic heard arguing he came downstairs and the defendant told him ‘come on then hit me’. Dominic replied ‘if I need to I will do’ before Collins went into the kitchen to get a knife.
Mr Parker said Collins then said he was going to kill himself before picking up a second knife in the living room by the television.
Armed with two knives, Collins pointed them towards his mother to ‘scare her’ before swinging a knife in front of his brother’s face shouting ‘I’m going to kill you’.
The court heard that Ms Curry and Dominic then fled into another room and held the door shut to prevent Collins from coming in.
Mr Parker said the pair heard ‘repeated loud banging’ against the door as the defendant used a brush to smash through the panels.
When police arrived at the house, Collins, still in just his boxer shorts, came to the front door holding both knives and was ‘shouting inaudibly, stuttering and mumbling’.
Officers repeatedly told the ‘highly agitated’ defendant to put down the knives but he refused and was eventually tasered.
At the police station Collins, who has 59 convictions for 94 previous offences, said he was ‘rattling’ after coming off heroin and crack cocaine and repeatedly told officers he wanted to kill his mum and brother.
He said: “When I get out I will kill them. I will stab the f*** out of both of them. I wish I did stab both of them. I really do. When I get out watch what happens. If I need to kill someone to tell someone my head is f***** I will do it. I will stab my mum and my brother. I will kill the f******. That’s a promise.”
Collins, formerly of Accrington and now of Bolton Street, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to criminal damage, resisting a police officer and two counts of making a threat to kill.
The 37-year-old was jailed for 28 months and given an indefinite restraining order against his mother and brother and not to enter Lonsdale Street.