10:26 EDT, 10 March 2021
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Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, denies three counts of child cruelty and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
A fitness fanatic father, who made his daughter sign contract promising never to get fat, also beat son more than 100 times with wooden spoon before attempting to strangle him, a court has heard.
Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, stood in the dock with his head bowed as his youngest son Hicham Khadla told horrific stories about his upbringing.
The aspiring police officer, now 18, told the jury that his father had condemned him as weak and said he was hit with a kitchen utensil more than 100 times as a child - starting when he was just seven years old.