Vianey Manzanillo De La Cruz who is on trial over the assault (Picture: Central)

A doctor ripped her husband’s scrotum with her long fingernails during a drunken row, a court heard.

It is alleged that Vianey Manzanillo De La Cruz, 32, grabbed hold of Alexandre Daband’s privates when he tried to throw her out of their flat in Bermondsey, south London.

He ended up having to have it stitched up in hospital following the attack in which it is alleged she threatened him with an umbrella and knife.

His now estranged wife, from the Dominican Republic, was arrested but told police she was only acting in self defence when she scratched her spouse’s testicles.




Prosecutor George Heimler, said: ‘The injury in this case is caused by her grabbing hold of the testicles and with her nails and actually ripping the skin part.

Alexandre Daband was injured in the attack (Picture: Central)

‘The issue really in this case is not did the defendant cause the injury but whether or not she did so unlawfully.’

The alleged attack happened in April after they had been drinking heavily and he had been sick repeatedly from all the tequila.

While in bed he said she attacked him with an umbrella and brandished a knife. When he tried to get her out of the flat.

He said: ‘This time she grabbed me by the testicles with one hand. She grabbed with some force and because of that I have been injured.

When asked if he was ‘okay down there’ now he said: ‘All okay’.

The trial continues.