A dad who murdered his three-week-old son and attempted to kill his partner has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years.
Denis Beytula admitted plunging a knife into his newborn child Andrei Stefan while he lay in his Moses basket, before turning the blade on the baby's mother Andreea Stefan.
The evil father said "I gave him life and I will take life" during the sickening attack.
Despite being seriously injured, Ms Stefan was able to dial 999 from their family home in Wallsend, North Tyneside, on October 2.
Beytula,27, rang police himself just seconds later to confess to what he had done.
Baby Andrei was rushed by air ambulance to hospital, but he was unable to be saved and died four days later.
Ms Stefan, 21, who was watching the sentencing from the public gallery, was left with serious injuries after Beytula entered the flat, grabbed a knife and "violently" began stabbing them both following an argument.
During sentencing, prosecutor Nick Dry told the court: "It was on October 6, 2019 that Andrei Stefan died at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was three weeks and four days old.
“Four days earlier, Andrei had been lying in his Moses basket when his father leaned over and stabbed him twice to the torso with a 6-inch kitchen knife. Despite all the efforts of doctors to sustain his life, those wounds were to prove fatal.
“Andrei’s murder was witnessed by his mother, Andreea Stefan.
“Immediately after stabbing his son, the defendant turned on her and, using the same knife, inflicted six separate, deep wounds to her body.
“Her life was saved by sheer chance; on each occasion the blade either narrowly missed her vital organs or grazed their surface.”
The court heard Beytula was a paranoid and jealous "control freak" who displayed controlling and coercive behaviour towards Andreea.
Before Andrei was born he made dark, ominous comments about the imminent birth of his son.
"One such was: ‘If I cannot be a good father to him, he will not live, I gave him life and I will take life',” Mr Dry added.
The court also heard Beytula threatened to kill Andreea the day before the murder.
He had got annoyed when she attended the crying baby as he was making sexual advances towards her.
The court heard Beytula returned the next day and attacked them both.
The prosecutor said: "Upon his return in the early afternoon he was angry. He took hold of the same knife he had threatened his partner with the previous evening. He told Andreea that he loved her and that he only needed her smile.
“He then turned the knife toward himself and then attempted to hand it over to her and said, ‘ok if I can’t kill you because I love you, you kill me'.
“He then put the knife to his own wrist and made a superficial cut over the veins. He drew blood and scared Andreea, who begged him stop and tried to reason that if he did love her, he would not do that.”
“Still holding the knife, Beytula then went to the bedroom where his son was sleeping and sat down on the bed.
“He was followed by Andreea and he asked her to go away, to the bathroom, on the pretense of getting him a dressing for his own superficial injury.
“At first, she refused, until he shouted at her and she edged away towards the bathroom.
“At that moment, she heard the defendant stand and she hurried back into the room to see him standing over the Moses basket, he then bringing the knife down quickly upon their baby son.
"Having inflicted fatal wounds upon him he then bore down on his partner, stabbing at her again and again. She struggled with him and managed to avoid some of the blows but still he drove the knife into her body repeatedly."
Beytula then calmly left the flat and called the police.
Mr Dry said a police officer was unaware a young baby had been attacked as she entered the flat.
He said: “It was PC Elliott who discovered baby Andrei, stabbed, crying and bleeding to death in his Moses basket.
“As the true horror of the situation became evident PC Elliott showed remarkable professionalism and composure, immediately having the presence of mind to undress the baby and apply emergency first aid to each of two puncture wounds on the his body, working ceaselessly to comfort and save him, then continuing her efforts when joined by an equally committed and commendable team of firearms officers and paramedics.”
Speaking after Beytula pleaded guilty Andreea said she was "glad" the will "pay for his actions".
Her victim impact statement was read to the court.
She said: "He was the man who was supposed to love us and take care of us.
”I don’t know how he can cope with what he has done.
“It’s simply the objective truth that I was in an abusive relationship with Denis who was my abuser and I was the victim.
"At times he was the hallmark of a perfect partner. He never cheated, never hit me, never went out with friends and I now recognise this is standard behaviour in an abusive relationship.
“The connection we had at times felt like love, however love doesn’t look like the relationship we had.
“Love doesn’t punch the walls and furniture and try to control their partner.
”Love doesn’t threaten to kill me. Love doesn’t kill babies.
“When you love someone you don’t abuse someone like Denis did to me.”
She added: “If there’s one thing I want Denis to know from this statement...I will never forgive him.”
Richard Fisher QC, defending, said Beytula, who has no previous convictions, is remorseful, had a difficult childhood and says the attack was not premeditated.
Judge Paul Sloan QC sentenced Beytula to life with a minimum term of 23 years.
