Ms Ruston said he violently raped and abused her - a pattern he would repeat for the next 13 years, eventually allowing his brothers to visit her and prostituting her out to other men.

She said: "I can still see that bedroom, the corner where I would rock in pain. Although after a while I stopped feeling pain, I think my body shut down.

"And I can smell it - the can I used as a toilet, the garlic he reeked of. I got to the point where I didn't know what life was."

Ms Huston described how she clung on to sanity by talking to her late grandmother - and by looking at a small photo of her first boyfriend, Jamie, she hid under a floorboard.

Over the years she became pregnant and had four babies, but each was sold by Malik soon after birth, she claimed.

She said: "I barely held any of my babies, I did not get the chance to be a mother to them."

Ms Ruston said she tried to escape but became terrified after she was badly beaten for daring to make the attempt, and repeatedly tried to kill herself.