A mum has told of her terror after coming face to face with her sex attacker ex-husband at the supermarket petrol station where he works.
Senga Downie, 42, was subjected to a degrading sex assault by Asif Syed.
And she was left sickened after finding him working behind a counter at a Tesco forecourt in Wishaw, Lanarkshire.
She thought the beast had been sacked from his job after his conviction.
Syed sexually assaulted her in the kitchen of her own home while their children were in the next room.
Mum-of-three Senga said: “I drove in and spotted his car and then saw him behind the counter through the window.
“I felt terrified. It brought everything right back to me and knocked me back. I just went into autopilot and had to get away as quick as I could. I flew through a roundabout and my car almost went under a truck.”
Syed, 50, dodged a prison term for the disgusting assault on Senga but was placed on the sex offenders’ register for three years and given community service.
He was ordered to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work and ordered to be supervised for three years following the conviction in June 2018.
Senga – who was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder – says her daughters refuse to speak to their father after the ordeal he put her through.
He was dropping two of his children off at her home after a contact visit when the attack took place. Senga recalled: “He started making suggestive comments and smacked me on the bum and my eldest daughter told him off, saying, ‘That’s my mum’. I had left him four years prior. I went into the kitchen and he came in and tried to come on to me.
“I told him not to but he pinned me up between the wall and the fridge freezer.”
Syed then assaulted Senga. She added: “He only stopped when my daughter came in to the kitchen.
“He had read on my Facebook page that I was in a relationship and told me he couldn’t cope with me being with someone else as I had been his wife for 12 years.”
Senga, from Bellshill, Lanarkshire, says a short time later, he grabbed her by the throat in front of one of their daughters. The case took almost two years to be dealt with by the courts.
Senga started drinking heavily and later lost her job as a manager at a homeless service for women. Her mental health deteriorated and she tried to take her own life.
According to Senga, Tesco has been made aware of Syed’s conviction on more than one occasion.
She said: “As soon as he was convicted, my friend contacted Tesco to let them know they had a sex offender working for them.
“I knew they were aware over a year ago so I just didn’t expect him to still be working there. They seem to have done nothing about it but I live in a prison now, I very rarely go out the door.
“The thought of even going into Wishaw now makes me feel sick.”
The Record tried a repeatedly to contact Syed for comment at his home in Holytown, Lanarkshire, but he couldn’t be reached.
Tesco wouldn’t comment on an “individual colleague”.
