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A MAN has described the moment his ex-wife tried to disembowel him minutes after a four-hour sex session at her Birmingham flat.

Bilal Miah – who had remarried – said Dalya Saeed brandished a knife “out of nowhere” and began stabbing him as they lay on her bed.

His small bowel was cut from his body and thrown onto the bedroom carpet, a jury at Birmingham Crown Court heard.

Saeed, 35, has denied charges of attempted murder and wounding with intent.

Mr Miah, 31, said it happened at around 10pm on a night in October 2015 after he lied to his new wife about where he was going.

The victim, who was wearing only his pants, said the pair argued about custody of their daughter before they ended up back on the bed.

Mr Miah said: “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.”

He said she stabbed him again before he grabbed the knife, slashing open his hand in the process.

“My intestines were out, everything was out and she was grabbing hold of them, trying to pull them,” Mr Miah said.

“She broke one of them and threw it onto the floor, but I managed to put the rest of them back in my belly.”

Mr Miah, a taxi driver, fled Saeed’s flat in Forest Road, Moseley .

But, the court heard, the attack continued in the street as she attacked him with a wooden bat and a meat cleaver.

Mr Miah was discovered at 3am when neighbours heard his screams and called police.

He suffered 30 separate wounds and spent ten days in hospital, but made a full recovery.

Saeed told police she attacked her ex-husband in self-defence after he raped her, the court heard.

During cross-examination by Patrick Upward QC, defending, Mr Miah accepted he had been physically and verbally abusive towards her wife during their two-year Islamic marriage.

The jury was also told that 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.

Saeed, an Iraqi Kurd, was only granted asylum in 2012.

Mr Miah told the court he spent four months in a detention centre in 2012 but was allowed to stay because he had a child in the UK.

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