A Clapham father threatened his 18-year-old daughter with a knife, after she refused to undergo a virginity test, a jury has heard.

Parents Mitra Eidiani, 42, and Ali Safaraei, 56, discovered their daughter, Sophia Safaraei, had a secret boyfriend, after Eidiani came home unexpectedly.

Prosecutor David Povall said Mr Safaraei then returned home after the boyfriend had left. He added: "Sophia describes hearing from inside her room her mother begging her father, 'please, don't hurt her'.

"But in any event, her father came up to the room shouting at her angrily, telling her that he would kill her and insisting that he and his wife should take Sophia to the doctor so that it could be checked whether she was still a virgin."

Sophia told jurors: "I did get threatened - that if I didn't go, stuff like I can get killed."

She was taken to the doctors, however, Dr Helen Lucus refused to carry out the 'virginity check' on the college student, unless Sophia gave consent.

After returning from the doctors, the college student was bitten by her mum, threatened with a kitchen knife by her dad, had her passport taken from her, and was told she would be sent "back to Iran to marry a cousin," Kingston Crown Court heard.

Sophia and Bailey Marshall-Telfer, 18, had been dating since January 2018 after meeting at work. Mr Marshall-Telfer told the court that the parents threatened him at work after finding out about his relationship with their daughter.

Mr Marshall-Telfer told the court he was confronted by Eidiani at Sports Direct and was told: "'Don’t come near my daughter again. I don’t want you communicating with her or anything like that.'"

The 18-year-old added: "She went on to say that she is a Muslim and her husband is a Muslim and said 'you have seen what our people do on the news and stuff, we’re dangerous people, be careful'."

Mr Marshall-Telfer said Mr Safaraei arrived ten to fifteen minutes after his wife and repeated the threat. He said: "He [Safaraei] came up to me and was like, 'was I the one that was in his house?', I was like ‘yes, I made a big mistake and I apologise’. He didn't really address the apology.

"He just kept asking me what had happened in there and that he had CCTV in his house. He said he was going to keep coming back and at the right place and at the right time that he would kill me."

Safaraei and Eidiani deny two counts of controlling or coercive behaviour and one count of making a threat to kill.

Eidiani also denies one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Defence barristers for the pair told the jury no threats were made, and they are not from a "strict Muslim household", which Sophia had claimed in a police interview.

Eidiani pleaded guilty to one count of criminal damage, related to a pair of headphones, at an earlier hearing.

The trial continues.