Zainab Jamshaid – Brighton

A transgender who was born a woman, then identified as a man and who now wants to be a woman again repeatedly assaulted a woman with a prosthetic penis during a ‘violent and controlling relationship’, a court has heard.

Zainab Jamshaid, 20, would wear the prosthetic device at all times during the turbulent relationship. He would allegedly use it to sexually assault the woman despite her pleas for him to stop.

The alleged victim wept and begged him to stop, repeatedly saying a safe word they had agreed to use if they wanted to sexual situation to stop.

Jamshaid went on trial on Monday charged with numerous sexual offences, assaults, strangulation and coercive and controlling behaviour.

Hove Crown Court heard the 20-year-old student, who was assigned female at birth but was identifying as a man at the time he met the complainant at college.

But their relationship quickly began to deteriorate especially after the alleged victim found out Jamshaid had been cheating on her with his former girlfriend, the court heard.

When challenged about it he became angry and argumentative and would say hurtful things to her.

After one row they were walking home when the defendant stopped and took a maths compass from his pocket.

The jury was told he then pulled up the leg of the woman’s shorts and scratched a ‘Z’ into her leg causing an injury which bled.

Sarah Lindop, prosecuting, said: ‘It was as if marking her as his.’

The complainant told police things further deteriorated when they attended a party together and she discovered Jamshaid locked in the bathroom with his former girlfriend.

The jury was told when she told them to come out she could hear them giggling behind the door.

After the girl left, Jamshaid then called the alleged victim into the bathroom where he tried to undress her and began touching her in a sexual way despite her telling him to stop.

Ms Lindop told the court Jamshaid first assaulted the woman with a prosthetic penis at a hotel.

She said Jamshaid, who now identifies as a woman again, always had the prosthetic penis and ‘would wear it at all times’.

Ms Lindop said: ‘The complainant had got out of the shower and defendant had started to kiss and touch her but then began getting aggressive.

‘She told him to stop but to no effect. He told her to shut up and carried on. He had on him his prosthetic penis and that was when he used it on her. She was crying throughout this. She was saying no and asking him to stop.’

The second time happened months later when he again began to undress her before assaulting her with the prosthetic.

Ms Lindop said: ‘She was trying to stop him and he was telling her to let him have it. Despite her lack of consent he penetrated her with the prosthetic penis again.’

Sometime later, the woman had then gone out with friends but received a call from a housemate telling her Jamshaid was at her house.

She returned home and found him upset and in tears and conceded he could stay the night at her house.

The alleged victim told him she would sleep in a different room but he began to undress her.

The court her that again he failed to listen to her protestations and assaulted her with the prosthetic.

Ms Lindop said: ‘She spoke of saying “No”, using the safe word but the defendant carried on regardless, getting a some sort of thrill. He was getting some sort of kick out of it.’

The jury was told their relationship was also marred buy several bouts of violence.

On one occasion Jamshaid had allegedly imprisoned the woman in a college bathroom for much of the day.

While there he had strangled her with his bare hands before throttling her with a metal bar until she lost consciousness.

On another he had hit her with the neck of a wine bottle and had also punched her on the jaw while wearing a ring, causing a cut which later scarred.

During one argument between the pair he had lashed out and punched her in the face seven times.

The jury was told Jamshaid was eventually arrested after going round to his ex-girlfriend’s house once again.

Initially he had tried to pretend he was actually the victim, giving police his ex-girlfriend’s name, before admitting his identity and being arrested.

The court heard that he gave police a prepared statement while in custody and denied all the 14 offences put to him.

The trial continues………