A man threatened to stab his family members to death less than 24 hours after being released on bail following a similar attack. 

His terrified mother and sister hid upstairs and called 999 while other family members tried to reason with knife-wielding Nichita Baciu.

The 23-year-old armed himself with a kitchen knife after turning up drunk at the family home at Sir Lewis Street in King’s Lynn on August 31, hours after being released from custody.

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Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard that police who responded to the incident fired Tasers and used pepper spray to restrain Baciu, after he barricaded himself into a bedroom.    

Josephine Jones, prosecuting, said his father had said to officers: “He told us if we called the police he would kill all of us.”

Baciu was remanded in custody at HMP Norwich until his sentencingBaciu was remanded in custody at HMP Norwich until his sentencing (Image: Newsquest)

Baciu, of Low Road in King’s Lynn, spoke through a Romanian interpreter to plead guilty to threats with an offensive weapon in a private place and breaching bail. 

The court was told the previous day he had been given bail with conditions not to contact his parents after admitting charges of assault and criminal damage related to previous incidents in June.  

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On June 29 he arrived at his parents' home, drunk and wielding a knife, before biting his father and grabbing him by the throat.

Ms Jones said he had become violently abusive and shouted: “I hate you and I will bury you.” 

He had also visited the address of his aunt and uncle on June 14, assaulting both after they refused him entry.

Magistrates remanded him in custody after refusing bail, telling him there were “substantial grounds to believe you would commit further offences and you have already committed offences while on bail”.

He will be sentenced on September 12.

Earlier this year Baciu was given a 12 month conditional discharge after smashing a driver’s rear window with a wine bottle, punching a man and spitting at police in a drunken rage near Tesco in Gaywood.