A self-styled preacher turned from a charming gentleman into an abuser whose eyes bulged with rage when he routinely raped and beat his “petrified” girlfriend, a jury heard.

Brian Jackson’s alleged second victim told Bradford Crown Court: “He was very violent. Mentally, he smothered me and physically, he raped me.”

She said Jackson threatened to shoot her and her grandmother after she ended their short relationship more than 20 years ago.

“He is an evil person,” she told the jury.

Jackson, 50, of Hall Lane, Windhill, Shipley, denies five charges of rape, involving three women, wounding with intent, two offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, attempted rape and indecently assaulting a man and a woman. The alleged offences are said to have spanned three decades.

He told police officers he was innocent of the accusations and was “a preacher of the word of god”.

The woman told the court yesterday she met Jackson in a pub in Bradford. “He was very charming, quite a gentleman,” she said.

She said the first time she saw another side to him was when they drove onto the moors near Haworth and they were sitting in his vehicle in the dark. The woman alleged Jackson became upset and then angry and aggressive, demanding sex that she did not want.

“His eyes sort of stood out of his head. It was terrible. He was like a different person,” she told the jury.

Jackson was later to pin her down on the bed and rape her, she claimed.

“I was petrified,” she said. “When he was angry his eyes used to bulge out.”

When she ended the relationship, Jackson kept phoning and threatened to kill her and her grandmother and put them in body bags, she alleged. “I did not go out of the house for six months I was so scared,” she said.

Jackson’s barrister, Tahir Khan QC, suggested she was making up stories of rape and routine beatings.

He said Jackson’s case was that he physically assaulted her only once and never forced her to have sex.

The trial continues.