An abusive St Denys man forced his partner to abort their unborn child by threatening to throw acid in her daughter’s face.

Charaf Elmoudden made the evil threat when his then-girlfriend confided she was carrying his baby - forcing her to terminate the pregnancy, Southampton Crown Court heard.

The incident in late 2020 was just one example of a catalogue of abuse by the 'paranoid' 35-year-old during their on-and-off, three-year relationship.

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On a holiday to Turkey, he saw his girlfriend look at another man - so he armed himself with scissors and threatened to stab him in the eye.

He also called the police on a man she had been showing photographs to while on a trip to Egypt, the court heard.

Elmoudden also climbed her neighbour's drainpipe to get into her garden; slept outside her house for days on end and said he hoped her family would get cancer after she left him, threatening to cut her new boyfriend.

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She reported his crimes to police following an incident on December 14 last year when he turned up at her house uninvited, and he was arrested.

He denied the allegations when interviewed by police - but later pleaded guilty to two counts of putting a person in fear of violence by harassment and common assault on the day of his trial.

In a victim statement read out by prosecutor Keely Harvey, the woman said Elmoudden had made her hate her own appearance and led to her needing counselling.

“I have now become such a recluse and I don’t leave my own home out of fear," she said. "Financially the last year has been a struggle.

“I now work less due to the fear of leaving my home. I have spent so much time being in fear of Mr Elmoudden.

“I just want to be able to lead a normal life again. I don’t want him to come near me or my family again.”

Ruba Huleihel, mitigating, said there were periods of "mutual contact" between the pair and that Elmoudden had a “traumatic upbringing” when he was beaten at a boarding school in Morocco.

He has since been diagnosed with PTSD and anxiety as a result, she said.

Sentencing him to 21 months in prison, recorder Simon Levene said Elmoudden had behaved “cruelly” to his partner and made her live "a hell of a life".

“I don’t believe that there is the slightest remorse in this case," he added.

His ex-partner was also granted a ten-year restraining order against him.