And when 36-year-old Nathen Graham Parry was tracked down by a police dog unit, he said he would kill an officer’s entire family.
While making a gun gesture with his hand, he said: "I will kill you, I’ll kill your family. I’ll start with your mother, then your wife, then your children, then finish you."
In June last year, Parry was sentenced to intensive supervision which prohibited him from using drugs or alcohol and was supposed to offer a pathway into addiction treatment.
"That sentence was designed and had at its heart the intent to assist you with the very desperate rehabilitation you needed," Judge Emma Smith told Parry in the Dunedin District Court yesterday.
Parry had been turning up to meetings with his Probation officer while intoxicated and had been warned about his conduct.
On December 8, his relapse was on full show.
Parry turned up at a 40-room Maryhill boarding house with a bandana covering his face and threw something at a window to get the attention of a female resident.
When that was unsuccessful, the defendant ripped a window frame away and entered the property.
Parry yelled at the woman, who allegedly owed him money, while she barricaded herself inside her room, the court heard.
Another resident brandished a knife sharpener and demanded the defendant leave.
But Parry disarmed him and beat him with the item.
He then went to the shared kitchen, grabbed a knife and repeatedly stabbed the woman’s door, demanding she let him in.
Another man briefly intervened until Parry threatened to stab him.
With police closing in, he fled the property, throwing the knife away, and was arrested in a nearby church carpark.
He was found with unprescribed anti-insomnia medication.
Despite police presence, Parry’s rage went unsuppressed.
"The next time I go there I will take a pistol and if you don’t get my phone I will kill 19 people and burn that house down," he said.
He threatened to send a gang to the home of one of the arresting officers and his expletive-laden monologue was so lengthy it covered an entire page of the court summary of facts.
"I’ll remember your face. I’ll see you in town, jump into your car and stab you in the neck," Parry told one officer.
"On any view they were repeated threats to kill in a specified way," Judge Smith said.
Counsel Deborah Henderson said her client was motivated to attend a residential rehabilitation programme.
Parry, in a restorative justice meeting, told one of his victims the same thing.
"Those words fall on my ears deafly ... You’ve had these opportunities and not taken them," the judge said.
Parry was convicted of seven charges, jailed for two years and two months and ordered to pay $1421 reparation.
