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A brave mum raped and almost set ablaze by her vicious ex-partner has lifted the lid on her terrifying years with the beast.

Kate King was in a relationship with Alfie Brown for almost 10 years and had a daughter with him but suffered a series of sexual and physical assaults at his hands.

Brown is now jail serving a 10 year sentence after being found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court of rape, sex with a child under 16, three counts of ABH and another assault.

All of the charges except for two of the assault offences relate to mum-of-two Kate, with whom Brown had a relationship that began when she was an impressionable 15 year old.

Kate, who stayed with Brown because she was terrified of being alone with the child she had by him, has now waived her anonymity to tell her story.

Kate, who is now 24, started seeing Brown in 2004. He was nine years older and manipulated the teenager with a mixture of violence, insults and emotional blackmail.

She gave birth to his daughter on Christmas Day 2005 when she was 16.

“I didn’t know any better,” she said

“He basically took me away from my family.

“He was manipulative and would make people feel sorry for him.

“But he would say horrible things to me and tell me that I was fat and would put me down with violence as well.”

In September 2007 he raped her.

Alfred James Brown was sentenced to 10 years at Cardiff Crown Court

“I was asleep in bed,” the full-time mum said.

“He used to disappear for days at a time and then he would come back.

“When he turned up he wanted to have sex and I was like, ‘I’m having a sleep.’

“But he just carried on and that was it, I couldn’t do anything. It was in my flat at night.

“I said no. But he didn’t listen to me and forced himself on me. He stopped when he was finished.”

Kate got up and slept on the sofa.

“I didn’t tell anyone for years,” she said.

“He got away with so much. There could be other women that he has done this to who do not know about this court case.

“He was always out sleeping with any girl he could find.”

She did not tell anyone of the attack until last year when the police visited her after Brown was reported over a separate incident.

“They came to see me and that was when I thought, ‘I have to do this. He has to be sent to prison for what he has done’.”

Brown knew she was underage when they met.

“He knew what he was doing when I was 15,” Kate said.

“He told the court I had told him I was 16 but that was not true.

“Once he came to the school dressed as a woman. It was embarrassing. That was what he was like. He was really strange.”

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Brown, from Blaenavon, banned his girlfriend from having cash – then would blow money on rubbish.

“There was nothing in the house,” Kate said.

“He would stop me from having money so I could not buy food.

“I had to sell things to buy my daughter food, not that I had much anyway.

“I never really got to have anything nice because he would break it. And then he would go to charity shops and do things like buy loads of teddy bears. Why would you do that when we did not even have any food?”

In 2005 he tried to set his heavily pregnant partner ablaze.

“There were some plates in front of the fridge and he could not open the door so he started chucking everything around,” Kate told WalesOnline.

“He had some petrol fluid, lighter fluid. It was a big bottle which he poured all over my head and all over me.”

He pulled out a Zippo and lit the flame.

“Then one of the men from the Newport hotel, where I was living at the time, walked in,” Kate said.

“I thought I was going to die. I was so scared – I was six months pregnant.

“I was crying and nearly having an asthma attack because I could not breathe properly.

“I was so thankful for that man walking through the door. He saved my life.”

She said Brown then ran out of the building.

“He ran out and I did not see him again for the rest of the day,” Kate said.

“When he came back, it was like nothing had happened. That was how it always was.

“But I was so scared of being on my own. That was what kept me with him, because I didn’t like him. But I was afraid of being on my own with a baby.”

In 2006 the thug chased Kate around her Cwmbran flat with a samurai sword.

“I can’t even remember what that was about,” she said.

“I remember running through the house and he was behind me with my rabbit. He had the sword at the rabbit’s neck.”

“I ran into the bathroom and sat there with my back against the door so he could not get in.

“I had my daughter in my arms.”

Kate, who has a son with a new boyfriend, never left Brown with her daughter.

“He was jealous of her when she was born and that she had my attention,” she said.

“I could not trust him with her, not to look after her properly.”

Kate despises Brown.

“I hate him,” she said.

“He has ruined my life, he really has. I come from a good background.

“I could have done my GCSEs and had a good job.

“I don’t regret my children but I could have had them later in life.

“I could have got good grades but he came along and ruined my last year in school. It all went bad and I did not do my GCSEs.”

Now Kate is rebuilding her life.

“I am doing my GCSEs again and I’m doing an accounting course,” she said.

“I really like it, it’s really good.

“If I could speak to him I would tell him he deserves everything he has got.

“It’s not just my life, it’s probably other women too. He’s probably ruined so many people’s lives.”

Brown “went out of the court room laughing”.

“He thought it was a big joke,” Kate said.

“I don’t think he even has the intellectual capacity to realise he is going to prison for a long time.”

Kate’s mother, Nicola King, claimed she had told police her daughter was vulnerable and in a sexual relationship. She also criticised social services for not intervening.

A Gwent Police spokesman said: “We pride ourself on offering the best possible service to victims of crime.

“If the victim in this case has any concerns about the way we responded we would be happy to address these with them.”

Torfaen Council also said it would deal with complainants directly.