The woman told the Central Criminal Court she believed she was going die as Ibrahim Elghynaoui (28) then strangled her during a struggle on her bedroom floor.
She fought back by pushing her thumbs into his eyes, kneeing him in the groin and biting him on the hand.
As she got up to to run for her bedroom door she said Elghynaoui sexually assaulted her.
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