A rape accused tried to cut his own baby from a pregnant woman’s stomach, a court has heard. Musaddaq Hoque, 37, is on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court facing 11 counts involving two women, including threats to kill, controlling and coercive behaviour, two counts of grievous bodily harm, and seven counts of rape which happened a few years ago. He denies all charges.
On Tuesday (June 24), prosecutor Ben Wild told the court Hoque, of St Luke’s Road in Notting Hill, met the first complainant on a dating app and got her pregnant before telling her he wanted nothing to do with the child and that his family would disown him. But after moving on, Hoque saw the woman with another man in a Facebook post and ‘threatened violence’.
Arriving at her home at 11pm, he was ‘aggressive and abusive’ and called her names like ‘whore’ as he demanded she remove her clothes, it is alleged. As the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sat on the bed naked, Hoque exposed his penis, told her she was a ‘slut’, and forced her head towards his genitals, slapping her and grabbing her throat, until she submitted, the court was told.
After the alleged oral rape, Hoque threw her on the bed and penetrated her vagina from behind, calling her a ‘slut’ and telling her ‘I don’t care’, as she begged him to stop the pain, the court heard.
Hoque then insisted the woman should have an abortion and threatened to do it himself before grabbing her head, telling her ‘Suck my f**king d**k now, do not get me angry’ and threatening to ‘stamp’ on her stomach, the court heard. When she refused, Hoque smacked her with a coat hanger, it is alleged.
As the woman tried to leave for a course she was on, Hoque grabbed a kitchen knife and said he would ‘cut the baby from your stomach’, forcing the woman to fend him off and suffer a cut to the webbing between her thumb and finger, the court heard. After wrapping a towel around her hand, she went to her course where one of the course leaders noted her unusual lateness and distress.
The course leader thought it was ‘odd’ and took her to one side, at which point she reported the allegations against Hoque, and later to a key worker at the same institution. When police were called, she repeated the same story, and a medical examiner noted bruising to her arm, breast, thighs, and the cut to her hand, which were somewhat consistent with the allegations, the court heard.
When Hoque handed himself into Leytonstone Police Station, he refused to answer questions and gave a prepared statement claiming he had gone to the woman’s house to discuss the abortion, and that any sex had been consensual. Hoque also claimed any bite marks on the woman’s breasts were due to the sex.
Later in the investigation, texts from the complainant’s phone allegedly showed Hoque making threats towards the woman, including ‘Try me b**ch, I will turn your world upside down’. In one text, an apparent reference to forcing an abortion, Hoque said ‘I’m going to take what I gave back, you do not deserve it’, the court heard.
After the alleged rapes and assault, texts also showed Hoque asking the complainant if she had spoken to ‘feds’, slang for the police. Another text allegedly said: “I wanted you to know I never wanted to hurt you. I just wanted to get rid of the baby.”
‘I will kill you and go to prison for it’
The second complainant, who also met Hoque on a dating app and fell pregnant to him, complained of sexual abuse throughout their encounters. The first time she met Hoque, the woman recalled him asking her for oral sex and exposing himself to her in the carpark at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Grays.
Comparing the manner with which the first complainant described the alleged oral rape, Mr Wild said the second complainant reported Hoque orally raping her throughout The woman also reported a specific alleged oral rape incident and separately, a vaginal rape which she alleged happened many months later.
Hoque also asked the woman for her jewellery, selling it for the tune of £8,000 without giving her any cash, and demanded money from her for having ‘given her a child’, the prosecution say. Like with the first complainant, Hoque also insisted she have an abortion, and threatened to perform one with a coat hanger if she did not comply, the court heard.
Hoque was arrested after an alleged incident whereby he saw a message from a neighbour on the woman’s phone and accused her of being in a relationship. After telling her to ‘sit down like a dog’ and calling her a ‘slag’, Hoque smashed a mirror with the woman’s phone, punched her, and threatened to kill her while holding a shard of glass, the court heard.
It is alleged Hoque told her ‘I will kill you and go to prison for it’ and that he would make her children ‘motherless’. Police were called by a neighbour who arrested Hoque at the scene. Like with his first complainant, Hoque made no comment to questions and issued a prepared statement claiming the sex was consensual and that he had never hurt the woman.
He denies all charges. The trial under Judge Ross Cohen continues.
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