Accuser mouthed attacker’s name as she fought for life

A VICTIM of an alleged violent, sadistic and abusive womaniser mouthed his name to police as she lay fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

The woman, now 28, had been subjected to beatings, scaldings, burned on an oven ring and throttled several times to the point of blacking out.

The victim - who cannot be named - invented stories to explain her injuries and only admitted the truth when she would have died but for four emergency operations. When shocked police asked her who was responsible, she was able only to mouth the name of the man she had lived with for seven years: Iqbal Ali.

Unable to speak, she used an alphabet board to say Ali, of Broadway, Chadderton, had abused her for years.

An investigation revealed remarkably similar stories of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual abuse given by Ali’s three earlier partners.

A jury at Manchester Crown Court heard a fifth woman not involved in the proceedings had also made allegations of threats to kill and false imprisonment against him, 13 years before..

Well-spoken Ali, educated at Xavarian College and Manchester Metropolitan University, has denied every allegation against him in court, saying the four women collaborated to falsely accuse him.

Ali told the jury he had never had a sexual relationship with his last accuser, with whom he had lived for seven years.

But the court earlier heard for a time he had relationships with both her and his third accuser at the same time — under the same roof. The 28 year old said she had known nothing about the other woman until Ali told her they would all be sharing a home.

She said Ali controlled her life including her money, and was so jealous he wanted to know her every move. He demanded sex whenever he wanted and forced her to obey him by saying he had committed murder and would hurt her family if she sisn’t obey him.

Under cross examination by David Toal, prosecuting, Ali said he was totally innocent of any wrong-doing against any of the women.

Mr Toal said: “There are only three possibilities: conspiracy, coincidence - or that what these four women are saying is completely true.”

Ali pleads not guilty to a total of 25 offences: 13 counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, four of rape, two of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, two of indecent assault, two of common assault, and two of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

The trial continues.