Bilal Miah, a 31-year-old father has told a court how his
ex-wife tried to disembowel him minutes after they had
a four-hour s*x session.
According to Metro UK, the attacker identified as Dalya
Saeed, 35, is accused of stabbing Miah with a carving
knife and trying to pull out his intestines.
A court heard part of Mr Miah’s small bowel was cut
from his body and thrown onto the bedroom carpet.
The taxi driver, who had remarried, told a jury he
desperately tried to push his entrails back into his
stomach after being attacked by his estranged wife at
her home.
Saeed denied charges of attempted murder and
wounding with intent when she went on trial at
Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.
Yesterday, Mr Miah told the jury he was attacked by
Saeed at around 10pm on October 19, 2015 after going
to her flat in Moseley, Birmingham.
He said the pair had argued about custody of their
daughter before they ended up back on the bed.
Giving evidence, Mr Miah added: ‘Suddenly in the blink
of an eye, and I didn’t see the knife, she stabbed me
twice in the belly.
‘I can only assume the knife came from either under the
bed or the pocket of her dressing gown.
‘My intestines were out, everything was out and she
was grabbing hold of them, trying to pull them.
‘She broke one of them and threw it onto the floor but I
managed to put the rest of them back in my belly.’
The court heard Mr Miah tried to flee the flat but Saeed
pursued him into the street where she attacked him
with a wooden bat and a meat cleaver.
He was only discovered in a nearby doorway at 3am
when neighbours heard his screams and called police.
The jury were told Mr Miah suffered 30 separate
wounds and spent ten days in hospital, where he had
two operations, but made a full recovery.
Prosecutor Adam Western told the jury:
‘The cuts were
so severe part of his small bowel ended up on the
carpet.
‘She caused his injuries. Her intention was nothing less
than to kill him.’
The court heard Saeed told police she attacked her ex-
husband in self-defence after he r*ped her.
During cross-examination by her barrister Patrick
Upward QC Mr Miah accepted he had been physically
and verbally abusive towards her during their two-year
Islamic marriage.
The jury also heard both he and Saeed had been at risk
of being deported as illegal immigrants.
Mr Miah came to the UK in 2010 on a student visa but
was classed as illegal because he had dropped out of
college and Iraqi Kurd Saeed was only granted asylum
in 2012.
The court heard Mr Miah spent four months in a
detention centre in 2012 but was allowed to stay
because he has a child in the UK.
The trial continues.
