Chloe Othen, 33, said she took a taxi to Ricky Lawrence’s Knightsbridge flat in the early hours of October 15, 2022 and soon began to think that he was “going to kill me”

A Miss Universe finalist was held at her ex’s home against her will before he ‘bit and punched’ her and threatened to ‘f*** up” her life, a court has heard.

Chloe Othen, 33, who reached the prestigious final in 2015, was punched in the head at least 30 times and sustained bites that turned “septic” at the hands of her one time partner, Ricky Lawrence, 32, Nightingale Crown Court in Holborn, London, was told on Tuesday, March 5.

The model was also strangled and dragged along the floor by her hair and denied the right to leave the plush Knightsbridge flat, a prosecutor alleged.

“As she got up to leave, Ricky Lawrence had grabbed her phone out of her hand and refused to give it back. He then lashed out and punched her,” prosecutor Sheilagh Davies said of the October 15, 2022 incident.

“He was fighting her, biting her multiple times all over her body.”

At this point, the pair weren’t together as a couple and when Ms Othen’s actually partner called her phone, Mr Lawrence allegedly answered and said he would “kill” him, the court heard.

Ms Othen then escaped the flat and ran to safety in a nearby hotel, Nightingale Crown Court heard.

She went to A&E on October 16 and it was documented that one of her bite marks had “turned septic”.

Ms Othen said in court that she went to the flat in the early hours of October 15 after an event, following Mr Lawrence becoming “aggressive”.

“I thought I’d let him calm down and then go over there and see him,” she said.

WhatsApp messages shown in court from 4.17am to 5.35am on the night of the alleged attack appear to show Mr Lawrence threatening the model and influencer.

Lawrence said: “You f***** up tonight. Watch what I do now you silly c***.”

Another message said: “I’ll do anything in my power to f*** up the rest of your life. Screenshot that.”

Ms Othen said she thought Lawrence’s behaviour was “manic”, but that receiving abusive messages from him was “quite normal”.

After she arrived in a taxi from Kensington, Ms Othen said she wanted to leave in a matter of minutes. “I genuinely thought he was going to kill me,” she told the court.

Ms Othen said at one point he “got two kitchen knives from his bedroom and chased me round the dining room”.

Lawrence was arrested at his flat and told police he had been scratched by Ms Othen.

Lawrence denies a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The trial continues.