A Birmingham woman stabbed her ex-husband with a carving knife before trying to pull out his intestines, a Birmingham court heard this week.

Dalya Saeed, 34, is alleged to have attached Bilal Mir, 31, shortly after they had sex at her home in Moseley, a suburb in south Birmingham, in October last year.

After attacking him with the knife, Ms Saeed allegedly also hit Mr Mir with a frying pan and a salt and pepper grinder, and pursued him outside while wielding a meat cleaver.

The couple, who have a daughter together, split up in 2013. Mr Mir has since remarried.

Describing the attack, Mr Mir told the jury: "She stabbed me twice in the belly ... I said to her, 'What have you done?' She then stood up and stabbed me again.

"I grabbed the knife from her. When I grabbed the knife my intestines were out. She was trying to hold on to my intestines and pull them.

"She pulled part of them off. I threw the knife behind a sofa and held the rest of them in my belly."