POLICE officers described a man’s injuries as the worst they had ever seen, with him “looking like the Elephant Man”, a court has heard.

The officers were the first to attend a house where Wayne McNally allegedly raped and assaulted a woman, and attempted to murder a man.

McNally, 34, of John Street, Tong Street, denies the offences.

Giving evidence at Bradford Crown Court, PCs Paul Comer and James Tuke spoke of the “horrific and shocking” scene that greeted them when they entered the house where the alleged attacks took place.

PC Comer said: “We received a message to attend the address at 10.05am to a report from the ambulance a female had been stabbed.

“There was a small streak of blood on the front door, and as I walked in I could hear shouting and screaming.

“In the living room was a horrific scene; a female kneeling on the floor covered in blood with a neck injury still pumping out blood.

“I noticed a man slumped in the corner of the room. PC Tuke attended to the female and I saw to the man.

“I tried to speak to him but he was completely unresponsive. I moved him up to the wall to try and get a response but it was horrific, I have never seen injuries so bad.

“The woman said a man called Wayne was responsible, and he had stabbed her and raped her and attacked the man.”

PC Tuke tended to the woman in the room, trying to stop the bleeding from her neck.

He said: “The carpet was heavily caked in blood, I suspected a very serious stabbing by the amount of blood on the floor and the wall.

“The woman was kneeling wearing jeans and a bra. The bra was heavily caked in blood and it was pooling in the middle from her neck.

“Initially she was fully concious, shouting, screaming and relaying information to me, but then she began slipping in and out of consciousness, going frail and weak and I was doing everything I could to keep her awake as I thought at the time I was keeping her alive.

“I first became aware of the man when PC Comer asked the woman if he had done this, but she said, ‘No he got him too’.

“He was sprawled on the sofa and was struggling for breath. I saw his face when he was rolled over and it was incredibly swollen and bruised.

“The only comparison I could make was he looked like the Elephant Man, the amount of swelling there was quite shocking.

“I recall us asking the woman who had done this, and she said it was ‘Wayne from John Street’.”

‘The Elephant Man’ was the nickname given to Joseph Merrick, a British man of the 19th Century, who had severe facial deformities, and was portrayed in film in 1980 by Sir John Hurt.

PC Mark Burns accompanied the woman to hospital.

He added: “When the doctor asked what happened and who did this she said Wayne McNally.

“She said he accused them both of cheating and attacked them both and raped her. She said she was beaten up by McNally and he punched her several times in the face and stabbed her in the neck, and then raped her.”

The trial continues.