THE mum of the three-year-old acid attack victim told the court how her ex-husband had previously threatened to kill her and their children.

She claimed her former partner had said he knew somebody who would murder them and warned that police would never be able to find their bodies.

Giving evidence via video link at Worcester Crown Court, she told jurors how they had married in 2006 before breaking up with him in 2012.

But they got back together after the dad phoned her up "crying down the phone" and "begged" for her to take him back.

She then left him for a second time four years later for good after he threatened to murder them in an Islamic country.

The Afghan mum, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: "Me and my husband separated in October 2012 - I left the family home and the children came with me.

"We went to the a refuge and I took some clothes for me and the children. We stayed there for three days.

"My husband kept calling my family and me as well.

"He kept crying and begging me to come back to him and said he wouldn't hurt me again and couldn't live without me or the children.

"When I came back he said that I embarrassed him in front of their family and wasn't crying for me but for the children.

"I felt very disappointed and gutted, I felt stupid as he told me he loved me.

"He also said he asked an imam whether, in our religion, he was allowed to kill me and the children because we left him for three days.

"The imam told him he wasn't allowed to do that and instead to say a prayer.

"He said to me he has two options, to either kill me and children in this country or take us to an Islamic country where he would be able to do anything to us.

"He said he knew somebody that could do something to us and the police would not find our bodies."

The mum said she launched divorce proceedings in 2016, which her husband reacted badly to.

She added: "He couldn't accept the separation and his first reaction was to call my family and put emotional pressure on them and he even went around to their home.

"My husband made an application for a child arrangement order - he wanted the children to live with him.

"I didn't want them to live him. The court made an order to for him to see children in supervision sessions.

"The children did sometimes attend the sessions with scrapes or bruises.

"My oldest son had a small scratch to his eye and my husband took a picture of the injury and made my son feel uncomfortable.

"My son told me he got the scratch from playing with friends at school.

"My youngest son had attended the session with a scratch on his lower back when he slipped from his chair which I explained to the supervisor.

"The second occasion he attended the session with an injury is when he was swimming he slipped and got a bruise on his elbow and I told the supervisor.

"I would tell the supervisor of these injuries because my husband would take a picture of them and show them to the courts to say I was a bad mother or I caused these injuries."

The court also heard after being arrested, the dad told police during interview that he would "never do such a thing" to his child.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees said: "The father said he knew nothing about the incident until a police officer told him about it at the time of his arrest.

"He denied any involvement in what happened to his son and said he would not do such a thing to his child.

"He did not know if this was a random attack on his son or by someone who wanted to hurt him."

The case continues.