AN ALLEGED victim has told a jury she did not feel ‘disdain or contempt’ towards a man accused of stabbing her multiple times.

Ravi Jeyendran is on trial at Preston Crown Court charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding causing grievous bodily harm in Barrow.

Prosecutor Catherine Ellis told a jury when opening the case the 53-year-old defendant stabbed the woman to her abdomen, shoulder and back with a ‘large kitchen knife’ as she attempted to leave his house on Schooner Street following a dispute over missing alcohol.

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The alleged victim told the prosecution on the opening day of the trial that Mr Jeyendran picked up a large silver kitchen knife before putting the blade to her throat and stabbing her on multiple occasions as she attempted to leave on an evening on May 4 last year.

She told the jury she thought Mr Jeyendran was joking when he asked her to leave following an argument over missing wine and that she ‘panicked’ when he came towards her with the knife.

It comes after she told the court she had gone to a local Co-Op to buy the alcohol for her and her partner after attending the defendant’s address earlier in the morning to drink his vodka.

The woman was asked further questions by the defendant’s barrister Jimmy Vakil in cross-examination on Thursday.

Mr Vakil put it to the complainant that it was her who attempted to steal vodka from Mr Jeyendran on the day of question and that she punched him.

He further alleged he was forced to hold her back and escort her to the front door as a result, both claims she vehemently denied.

Mr Vakil also put it to the alleged victim that she would ask to stay at his address and ‘pull on the heartstrings’ of the defendant.

The woman accepted she attended Mr Jeyendran’s address regularly where they would drink on every occasion.  

She conceded to the jury she was an alcoholic and that she would occasionally ‘gulp’ vodka, the court heard.

However, she denied the defence’s claim that two men came to check the defendant’s address and that she had a secret door knock to let the defendant know it was her.

Mr Vakil put it to the complainant that the defendant rang the police after she ‘barged’ into his property shortly after midnight on May 4 to use his phone before posting the device back through his letter box shortly after.

The court heard the woman accepted the defendant called the police once again on May 3 over her drunk and disorderly behaviour.

“He was a friend,” she told the court. "I did not manipulate him.

“I have never treated him with disdain or contempt. I have always had care for his welfare.”

Mr Vakil told the jury the alleged victim had previous convictions for being drunk and disorderly whilst in the presence of the defendant at his address and for stealing alcohol from a Co-Op store in Barrow.

He said the complainant was released from prison on April 25 after serving a six-month sentence for three other shoplifting matters and stealing and attempting to use the defendant’s bank card.

The trial continues.