Mohamed Zahran, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for forcing his victims to degrade themselves on a living room carpet at a house in County Durham

A psycho knifeman has been jailed after forcing two women to stage a lesbian sex show in front of a terrified toddler before repeatedly stabbing them when they refused to let him join in.

Mohamed Zahran was sentenced to 16 years in prison for forcing his victims to degrade themselves on a living room carpet at a house in County Durham.

Zahran, 38, a chef, ordered the two adults to strip naked at knifepoint and lie on top of each other while pretending to film them on his phone.

The two friends sobbed as they were forced to touch and kiss each other - while the daughter of one of the women looked on, thinking it was only 'a game'.

But when Egyptian-born Zahran wanted 'his turn' to have sex, the child's mother said no and he repeatedly knifed both women.

The mother's injured friend ran naked into the street and screamed at neighbours to call police - who burst into the house to find Zahran had stabbed himself in the stomach.

Jailing Zahran, a judge told him: 'The sexual activity you forced them to endure and your knife attack will haunt them for the rest of their lives.'

After the sentence, the victims described how they feared they would be raped and murdered when Zahran revealed his 'psycho plan' at a house in County Durham.

The mother of the little girl forced to watch the sick show choked back tears as she recalled: 'He said I had to take off my clothes and have sex with my friend.

'I had no clothing on at all. My friend removed her clothing. She was distressed and terrified.

'We thought he was going to kill us. He had the knife in his hand and my daughter was still running around the room.

'He told me I had to lay on my friend. We were both lying down and he told us to start kissing, to moan and the make sexual movements. He was holding the knife in one hand and his phone in the other.

'We changed positions so that she was lying on top of me. He then began touching himself and touched me. We were crying and screaming.

'He was looking towards my friend. He was looking as though he was going to rape her and she was begging him not to.

'He told her it was her turn now and his turn to have sex with her. I told him not to touch her, he could do whatever he wanted with me.'

Then Zahran suddenly began stabbing her friend.

She was covered in blood. I saw him stabbing her. She was on her knees and couldn't get to her feet

She added: 'She was covered in blood. I saw him stabbing her. She was on her knees. She couldn't get to her feet.

'He came over to me and my friend ran to the window, she was banging on it and screaming. He came over to me and stabbed me seven times.

'I managed to push him hard and he fell over onto the floor. I told my friend to run.

'My friend was naked and bleeding. She ran into the street and was banging on the doors of neighbours to get help.'

The woman still suffers flashbacks and nightmares, and cannot bear take a shower or look in the mirror because of the scars.

The other victim, 29, told how she tried to leave the house when she Zahran grabbed her by the throat, threw her to the floor, sat on top of her, and started jabbing her throat with the blade.

She said: 'I thought that's it - he's going to kill me. I was looking around for anything I could grab, anything that could help me.

'There was nothing there close enough and I realised I couldn't protect myself. I felt this is really it. That was the moment that broke me and I realised I would probably do anything he asked for, just to get away.

'I said sorry a million times even though I never felt it. I just thought it would convince him to let us go.'

She did not feel the blade go in and only realised she had been stabbed when she saw she was bleeding.

She continued: 'My mind was only on one thing - to get out of this house and phone the police.

Zahran, of Bowburn, County Durham, admitted two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent before his trial at Teesside Crown Court, pictured. He has now been jailed for 16 years

'He told me he had a gun, that he had bought a gun, and that there was going to be a bullet for the head of anyone I cared about.

'I will never forget the look of satisfaction on his face as he enjoyed inflicting fear and pain on me.'

Zahran, of Bowburn, County Durham, admitted two charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent before his trial at Teesside Crown Court.

He denied two offences of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, sexual assault and false imprisonment but was convicted by the jury.

Prosecutor Deborah Smithies told the court that the women suffered 'gratuitous degradation' in the 'sustained and prolonged' attack.

Judge Simon Phillips QC told Zahran he will also have to serve an extended five years on licence recall after his release, and will be on the sex offenders' register for life.

He said: 'These women did not want to do what you were demanding. They were afraid you would hurt them. Fearing for their life, they complied.

'One of them told the jury she firmly believed you were going to rape her, but was prepared to die rather than give in further to your knife-point demands.'