A man has gone on trial at Inverness Sheriff Court facing 11 charges of threatening behaviour and assault to injury.
Greg Sutherland, 32, is accused of committing the offences between August 2016 and October 2018 at various addresses in Tain and Balintore.
Yesterday, one of his alleged victims told the court Sutherland punched her on the head and seized her by the throat during an incident at Tain.
He is also accused of threatening another woman with violence on the same occasion.
The witness told the jury that she was pregnant in 2017 when she was seized by the hair and repeatedly punched on the head at a different Tain address.
She told fiscal depute Robert Weir: “He gave me a black eye and grabbed my hair.”
At another address in the Ross-shire town in 2018, the two women and another man were allegedly in the house.
The woman said: “He was choking me. The police came but I told them what Greg had told me to say- that I was suffering from post-natal depression and tried to jump out the window to kill myself. I was not suffering from anything.”
The woman told of another alleged incident in Balintore, when he again attacked her by trying to strangle her.
She added: “I thought I was going to die. He grabbed a knife from the kitchen and at first held it to his throat and then pointed it at me.”
Questioned by defence solicitor Graham Mann, she denied that she had made up stories.
She also denied a suggestion by Mr Mann that she “often flew off the handle with him and was violent”.
The trial continues.