A weightlifting champion found guilty of abusing his ex-girlfriend can be heard bullying, demeaning and threatening her in a vile recording of one of their rows.
Alireza Herefedoust, 34, known as the 'Strength Predator' in bodybuilding circles, abused and sought to control his former partner during their 13-month relationship.
In November, the bodybuilder escaped jail after being sentenced to ten months in prison suspended for two years, and a restraining order, after admitting coercive and controlling behaviour, Manchester Evening News reports.
The court ordered him to complete 31 sessions of the Building Better Relationships programme and 200 hours of unpaid work.
At the hearing, Jude Susan Goddard QC branded the bodybuilder a "very weak man".
His victim, who has asked for her identity to be concealed, has since released a series of voice recordings.
She has chosen to share her story to raise awareness of the different support networks available for women who are trapped in abusive and controlling relationships.
In a series of video clips recorded during one month of their relationship, Herefedoust can be heard ranting at the victim as the pair argued.
During one recording of an argument from April 2019, he says: "Can you f****** bring your stuff out of the f****** corridor.
"You are going to be in deep s*** trouble."
The victim can be heard to reply: "I am. I'm in deep f****** trouble anyway."
Herefedoust continues: "This is what I'm saying you're a f****** idiot. Get your stuff. Get back in and stop doing my head in."
In the same month, Herefedoust can be heard accusing the victim of sleeping with other men, after the court heard he insisted on coming to a doctor's appointment with her.
"Don't talk s*** to me. It's your f****** attitude I've told you ten times," he can be heard saying.
The victim responds: "It's not my attitude. I didn't say nothing."
Herefedoust then says: "F*** off. I know the f****** rules in here."
The woman replies: "What? You need to read their policy."
He then says: "You can come and suck it right... oh actually, after you've been killed of a f***** disease I don't know."
The victim adds: "Well you're the one that's f****** given it to me."
Herefedoust can then be heard to say: "I don't think so. God knows how many people you've been sleeping with."
The pair first met online in the summer of 2018, and initially bonded over their shared interest in weight-lifting.
"It was okay to start with. He presented himself well and we had lots of common interests," the victim said.
"Things were good and we were getting on well. We were both competing. I had my own coach at the time but he said he could help me out with a bit of training."
In November 2018, after roughly five months of dating, the woman decided to move in with Herefedoust at his apartment in Hulme.
For the first few weeks of living together, everything in the relationship seemed perfect.
"Alireza decided that he didn't want me to continue with my coach and wanted to take over my training which I agreed to do without thinking twice," the victim said.
"It was around December time 2018 when things started to go wrong."
Manchester Crown Court heard Herefedoust accessed the victim's laptop and found old messages she had sent to another man prior to them moving in together.
Michael Lavery, prosecuting, told the court: "He accused her of being a liar and a cheat and she packed up and was going to leave him but he persuaded her to stay and things seemed to settle down."
During their relationship, the court heard that the victim agreed to act as a guarantor on a loan for a new car for Herefedoust.
The court heard that the victim tried to leave Herefedoust a number of times but each time he would stand in the doorway and physically prevent her from leaving.
She decided to begin recording some of their arguments "in case anything ever happened."
During another voice recording of an argument in April 2019, Herefedoust could be heard threatening to 'smash up' his car and make the victim pay for it.
"I'm going to smash the car somewhere," he can be heard saying.
The victim replies: "You can't f****** smash the car.
Herefedoust responds by saying: "I can simply smash the car. It's not mine. It's your name on the insurance," he said.
The woman asks him: "Are you really going to be that much of a d*** right now."
To which he says: "Your mum is a d*** and your family and yourself. Don't talk to me like that you k***head.
She responds saying: "Don't f****** talk to me like that.
Herefedoust can then be heard to say to her: "You're a little girl. You can't even control your life."
"Don't f***** smoke in here as well," he continues. "In the f***** kitchen come on," he says.
She responds: "Don't f****** push me. Since when can't we smoke anywhere we like?"
Herefedoust then says: "You can smoke where I say."
The victim said she tried to leave Herefedoust on one occasion by moving into a friend's house, but was bombarded with texts and phone calls from him begging her to come back.
