Trauma of ex-boyfriend's killing frenzy revealed
A woman whose ex-boyfriend killed her sister and best friend in front of her has spoken about the trauma for the first time.
Elisa Frank was forced to watch as Ahmad Otak stabbed the women in West Yorkshire in March last year, reports the Daily Mail.
Ms Frank said she would never forgive herself for bringing Otak into their lives.
Kim Frank, 17, and Samantha Sykes, 18, were murdered by the 21-year-old asylum seeker at Kim's flat in Wakefield.
He plunged his knife into Kim as he pretended to be leaving the flat she shared with her older sister Elisa.
The court was told that Otak stood over Kim's body laughing, then licked blood from the knife and spat on her.
He then tied Elisa up, held her at knifepoint, and forced her to summon Miss Sykes to the flat, where he stabbed and slashed her 34 times.
Ms Frank said she wished Otak had killed her instead.
"Every day I wish he had taken my life instead of theirs and I'll never forgive myself for bringing him into their lives," she told the Sunday Mirror. "The only thing that stops me from killing myself now is that I can't allow him to get three out of three."
The 20-year-old said she would never forget the bloody scene and was haunted by flashbacks and nightmares. Last year Ms Frank was sectioned under the mental health act after a drug overdose.
The Afghan killer pleaded guilty and was jailed for life.
Otak abducted Miss Frank after the killings, using Miss Sykes' car to drive to Dover in a failed bid to flee to France.
An Iranian refugee, also trying to leave Britain, grabbed Otak's knife, allowing Ms Frank to flee.
Otak initially told police his ex had helped him kill the two women and she was arrested. It took three days for her to be released.
Their relationship began when Ms Frank met Otak in a children's home in Wakefield. According to the Daily Mail, Otak arrived in Britain in 2007.
He told Miss Frank that his parents were dead and spoke about the murders he had seen back home.
They planned to marry in 2011, but Miss Frank called off the wedding because of Otak's 'violent and controlling nature'.
He controlled what she wore and made her walk behind him at all times, she revealed.
"He started making up weird rules," she told the Sunday Mirror. "One day he told me I wasn't allowed to talk to men any more. I wasn't allowed to drink either because it wasn't allowed in his culture. Then he stopped me from seeing certain girls he said were a bad influence."
These "bad influences" included her younger sister and Miss Sykes.
