By Bridget Sielicki

A British man is on trial after authorities say he stabbed and killed his pregnant girlfriend because she wouldn’t have an abortion.

Filmon Andmichaen, 31, is said to have brutally murdered 26-year-old Liwam Bereket, who was six-months pregnant with their child. Andmichaen and Bereket were in a relationship, although Andmichaen was married to another woman. Doctors attempted an emergency C-section to save the baby after Bereket’s body was found, but the child was stillborn.

During the trial, prosecutor Sandip Patel said that Andmichaen had wanted an abortion so that his wife and children wouldn’t discover his affair. Patel called the murder “[a]n act that ended the life of an innocent woman and an unborn child she nourished within her. The facts are as simple as they are gruesome.”