A Lavington grandmother was woken from a deep sleep on her couch by a voice calling out: "You remember me, we had a great time last night."
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She stood up, walked to and then opened her front door and saw a shirtless man covered in tattoos staring back.
The woman didn't know him, Albury Local Court has heard, yet she let him inside the unit.
It was 5am on November 21.
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An hour before, police had stopped Matthew Maynard for a chat.
But that wasn't his name. He was "Squirrel," he told them.
The 39-year-old Albury man began erratically punching and kicking at nothing.
They realised he had mental health issues, which was confirmed by his inability to answer any of their questions.
He was similarly incomprehensible to his victim.
Maynard, on a couch opposite the woman and talking about his children, spilt a glass of wine.
She told him to go to the kitchen to get a tea towel to mop-up the mess, but Maynard returned with a knife with a 20-centimetre blade.
He stabbed the arm of a lounge chair, then waved the knife in front of him as he walked towards the woman, who was back lying on her couch, and said: "I'm gonna cut your feet off."
She feared for her life, which was so apparent to Maynard that he urged her to call the police.
That she did.
But Maynard's erratic behaviour continued, stabbing a hole into his pants before grabbing the victim's walking stick to knock a glass off the kitchen bench and smash a glass plate.
"I'm gonna kill your grandkids," he said.
Maynard will be sentenced on January 25 after pleading guilty to intimidation, destroy or damage property and being armed with the intention of committing an indictable offence.
