A terrified teenager fled into the street wearing nothing but a t-shirt after being sexually assaulted at a house in Fife, a court has been told.
Gary Hempseed is accused of assaulting the woman as part of a campaign of abuse against several teenagers lasting over a decade.
One youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, wept as she told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court how she pretended to be asleep as Hempseed carried out an attack on her.
The woman, who is now 18, said she had been invited to stay at the 57-year-old’s home following a night out drinking.
She said: “I was trying to get ready for bed.
“I didn’t have any clean jammies so he said he would get me a t-shirt of his.
“He started trying to undress me. I was wearing a bandeau top and he tried to take it off but I pushed him away and said I could do it myself.
“He left the room and I shut the door.”
Fled into street
She said Hempseed had invited her downstairs “for a fag” but feeling uncomfortable, she had pretended to fall asleep on the couch.
She said he began touching her and then moved onto the floor in front of her, removed her underwear and assaulted her.
The woman said she was “scared and in shock” so continued pretending to be asleep.
She said the attack only ended when Hempseed answered a phone call and she pretended to wake and go to the toilet.
“I was walking down stairs.
“I put my elbow to the door to see if it would open.
“I was open and I ran along the road in just a t-shirt.”
She said she ran to a house nearby where she knew the occupant.
‘Tummy tickles’
The court heard from a second woman who said Hempseed started abusing her at the age of 12.
She described a ritual of “tummy tickles” in which Hempseed would get her to tickle him hear his groin, usually for 10 or 15 minutes but sometimes for up to an hour.
She said he asked for these sessions in exchange for giving her things, including money.
She denied instigating them.
The woman, who is now 19, also described an incident in Hempseed’s hot tub in which he guided another man’s hand to within inches of her groin.
She said the man, who was several years older than her, pulled his hand away.
The charges
Hempseed, of Skye Road, Dunfermline, is accused of multiple offences against three women between 2007 and 2020.
He is alleged to have used lewd and libidinous practices towards the first woman at a caravan park in the Stirling area between June 2007 and October 2008.
He is also said to have sexually assaulted the same woman at an address in Dunfermline between August 2012 and August 2020.
It is alleged he sexually assaulted the second woman at various addresses in Dunfermline between November 2013 and November 2019.
He is also said to have engaged in sexual communications with her.
The third woman is said to have been sexually assaulted at an address in Dunfermline in November 2019.
In all, Hempseed faces 10 separate charges.
The trial, before Sheriff Charles Macnair continues.
