Tonia Noto said she knew Ayman Yousif as a client and he propositioned her for sex as she worked in Fishponds Road
A prostitute told a jury that a punter who didn’t have money to pay her for services bludgeoned her with a frying pan.
Tonia Noto said she knew Ayman Yousif as a client and he propositioned her for sex as she worked in Fishponds Road, Bristol Crown Court heard.
But she said when she went to his nearby flat later he didn’t have the money to pay her and became agitated, attacking her with a frying pan and screwdriver.
Yousif, 46, formerly of Fishponds Road but now living in Bothwell Street, Edinburgh, denies assault occasioning actual bodily harm in April 2014.
Ms Noto said she had smoked drugs and done business with taxi driver Yousif, whom she knew as Ali, before.
But she said after he wanted to have sex, she twice went to his flat but he had no money to pay her.
She told Bristol Crown Court: “The second time we sat down and talked a little bit.
“Then he started groping me, he touched my breasts and crotch.
“I said I needed him to pay me. He only had £10.”
With that Yousif became agitated, she said.
She told the court she backed up against a draining board, feeling for something to defend herself, when Yousif attacked her.
She said: “He picked up a frying pan and repeatedly hit me with it. He was hitting me across my head, I raised my arm and he hit my arm.”
Ms Noto recounted how she screamed for help, hoping her partner stood outside would hear her.
Yousif continued to attack her with a frying pan, bit her and also struck her with a screwdriver, she said.
Ms Noto said: “It was just crazy.”
Even though Yousif locked his front door and tried to block it with a sofa, Ms Noto managed to unlock the door.
She said her partner then came in and punched Yousif to the floor before police arrived on the scene.
Though she suffered black eyes, a lump on the back of her head and bruising she told police “forget it” when they arrived.
But the court heard she made a complaint later after speaking to the One25 project, a charity which helps street sex workers.
Yousif said the woman came to his flat wanting money to buy drugs, hit him with his frying pan and stabbed him and he defended himself.
He told the jury: “I didn’t approach her for sex. I didn’t become angry. I wasn’t violent towards her,”
The case continues.
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