A TERRIFIED woman was kicked and punched by a man who also made a chilling kill threat while holding a knife to her head.

CCTV footage played at Carlisle Crown Court showed Dean Ronald Haughan, 31, subjecting the woman to a prolonged ordeal outside his city flat.

She went with a female friend to his room within supported accommodation on the night of May 12. “Once at the room, alcohol and drugs were consumed by the two women and the defendant,” said prosecutor David Traynor as Haughan went on trial.

Haughan denies false imprisonment and also committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence.

Jurors heard he admits making a threat to kill to the woman and actual bodily harm assault.

He further admits assaulting the friend by shoving her from his flat before the main incidents occurred.

“That camera,” Mr Traynor said of a device covering the landing area, “captures much of the evidence you will see in this case.”

Eight separate clips from a 12-hour period were played to jurors.

These showed Haughan and the woman on the landing at various times, he being completely naked at times; her partially clothed and grounded. Both later recalled little.

“He has a large knife hidden behind his back. He kicks her to the upper torso and then he gets on top of her and he is holding the knife towards her, pointing towards her throat or head area,” Mr Traynor told jurors.

“I suggest to you she is clearly terrified by what is happening to her.”

Haughan also dragged the woman into his room and later struck her to the ground before she departed, mid-morning, holding her face.

After police were called, he allegedly later wrote in a letter: “If they ask if you had sex, say it’s nothing to do with them, coz it’s not.”

Mr Traynor said of Haughan, of Stonegarth, Carlisle: “He says he didn’t falsely imprison her at any point. He says she was free to leave. In addition, he says he never had any intention of committing a sexual offence against her. Any sexual behaviour, he says, was consensual.”

The trial continues.