A Broughty Ferry man has taken the stand to deny performing a sex act on a dog.
Derek Black, 67, is on trial accused of masturbating a woman’s spaniel at an address in Broughty Ferry in 2019.
The court saw screenshots of phone messages in which he asked the dog’s owner if it was “hard”.
Black denies sexually assaulting the dog and its owner.
Pig husbandry
At one point during cross-examination, Black explained he had previously worked on a pig farm and had been involved in husbandry.
He said he used to help “prove” wild boars on the farm “worked” before “guiding them on” to sows while employed on the farm.
He said: “They had young, wild boars.
“They had to be able to ‘work’.
“You had a piece of wood or a stick to put them the correct way.
“Sometimes they would mount the head.
“You would use the stick to guide the boar.”
Black claimed evidence heard earlier in the week detailing a sex-act he allegedly carried out on the dog was a “pack of lies”.
The dog’s owner claimed he abused the animal as a way to “tire it”.
However, he said he would visit the woman and her dog but the only way he would “tire it out” was by taking it for a “walk around the block”.
Phone messages shown in court
Dundee Sheriff Court was shown WhatsApp messages between Black and the complainer from 2016.
In them, he would ask how “horn” was — which he claimed was short for “horn dog” — and would repeatedly ask if the dog was “hard”.
“It was a reference to the dog – it was permanently humping and mounting things,” he said.
At one point such a message was followed the next morning with a kiss emoji, and a further message telling her to “delete all nonsense”.
During cross-examination by depute fiscal Stewart Duncan, he was asked about a message he sent the woman regarding a sex toy.
The court heard earlier the woman said she was “shocked” to have received such a message.
Mr Duncan asked further: “It has been alleged you masturbated the dog and it ejaculated. Is this a lie?”
Black responded: “Yes.”
When asked if he had “dry humped” a door in the woman’s flat, Black responded: “I have no idea where that came from” and denied doing it.
Trial continues
Black also denies sexually assaulting the woman.
In evidence from an initial police interview, the court heard Black told officers: “I only touched her stomach and said you look swell.”
Black denied saying this.
Black, of Gray Street, Broughty Ferry, 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 on one occasion during November 2019 he acted in a threatening or abusive manner towards a woman in Gray Street.
Black denies the charges and the trial before Sheriff Alistair Carmichael continues.
