A jury has been told that a man accused of carrying out repeated sex attacks on a dog did not deny it when first approached by police.
The trial of Derek Black also heard from a witness who described how shocked he was to walk in on the accused while he was pleasuring the spaniel in the kitchen of his flat.
He said: “I was shocked. I took a few minutes to process it.
“Was it actually happening?
“I got my sister and said I think I’ve just seen Derek do this to the dog.
“It was just too awkward. I didn’t know what to say.
“I didn’t mention anything about it for a long time after either.
“I just kept it internally.
“I didn’t know what was going on until I saw what happened to my dog.
“I was angry, shocked, grossed out, confused.”
Reply to police
PC Ross Hunter, 31, told the trial at Dundee Sheriff Court when Black was told he was being charged with sexually assaulting the dog, he replied: “The dog used to mount me.”
A 25-year-old woman, who lived in a flat with the spaniel said Black became aroused after carrying out the sex act on the pet dog.
“After he masturbated the dog he grabbed my breasts,” she told the jury.
“We thought we would give Derek a chance to apologise for what happened.
“We confronted him.
“He admitted touching my breasts and said it was just ‘tweak, tweak.'”
Her aunt, who accompanied her to the meeting with Black and his wife Beverly, said she accused Black, 67, of masturbating the dog at least seven times.
She said: “He screwed up his face as if to say he didn’t – like he didn’t agree with seven times.
“I called him a dirty mouthed creep.
“He held his hands up as if he was holding her breasts and he went ‘tweak, tweak’.”
Evidence from the first day of the trial can be read here.
The charges
The court heard previously how Black would come to the flat and touch the dog, before stating he had been turned on by it and would start to “dry hump” the door frame.
Black told its owner he “knew a good way to tire out” her energetic dog before leaving her shocked by carrying out the sexual attack in front of her.
The woman, who had known him for years, said “creepy” Black also carried out a sexual assault on her after he had been aroused by touching the spaniel’s genitals.
Black, of Gray Street, Broughty Ferry denies making sexually explicit comments about the dog before carrying out a sex act upon it.
Black is alleged to have sexually assaulted the woman several times in Dundee between January 1 2013 and November 30 2017.
He is alleged to have made sexual comments about her appearance and asked her to have sex before rubbing his penis on a doorframe and sexually assaulting her dog in her presence.
It is further alleged that on one occasion during November 2019 he acted in a threatening or abusive manner towards a woman in Gray Street.
Many of those involved as witnesses cannot be named as the victim of the alleged sexual assault cannot be publicly identified.
Black denies the charges and the trial before Sheriff Alistair Carmichael continues.
