A mentally-ill woman was sexually assaulted by self-styled preacher Brian Jackson after he invited her to go for a walk with him, a jury was told yesterday.

The woman, who was an in-patient at Bradford’s Lynfield Mount Hospital, said Jackson groped her then threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

She told Bradford Crown Court she was suffering from a borderline personality disorder and was a self-harmer.

She alleged the attack happened after she left the hospital ward to take a trip to a local pub more than ten years ago.

The woman said Jackson said “stop here” on a muddy path before sexually molesting her.

She said she told nurses at the hospital and the police were informed but she was too scared to press charges.

Afterwards, she claimed, Jackson watched her at the hospital. “His eyes were evil all the time,” she said.

“I thought he was an all-right guy and I could trust him.”

Earlier, the daughter of another of Jackson’s alleged victims told the jury she saw him punch her mother and knock her unconscious when she was 11 or 12.

The woman claimed that her mother suffered black eyes and bruised arms in attacks from Jackson.

He smashed windows and cut the phone line if he was not allowed into their house, she said.

When Jackson’s barrister, Tahir Khan QC, put it to the woman that the attacks had not happened, she replied: “Why would I lie about something so harrowing when I was a child?”

Jackson, 50, of Hall Lane, Windhill, Shipley, told investigating officers he was a “preacher of the word of God”.

He denies a string of rapes, sexual abuse and beatings against five women and a man over three decades.

He is alleged to have raped three women and sexually assaulted a man and woman as well as biting another woman on the lip in a nightclub.

Jackson is accused of throttling a former girlfriend with a phone flex, hitting her on the head with a pool cue and stabbing her in the leg for giving her sister more potatoes than him.

She told the jury she hated him so much she cleaned the toilet bowl with his toothbrush, served dog food in his meat and potato pie and spat in his food. She said she last spoke to Jackson more than 20 years ago when he told her he had found God.

The trial continues.