A woman accosted by a chef as she left her block of flats “feared for her life”, a court has heard.
Mohammed Uddin is alleged to have grabbed Clair McDonald as she made her way to a friend’s car.
Miss McDonald told Perth Sheriff Court that Uddin has asked to look around her flat before grabbing her by the wrist and trying to get her to return to the block.
The nurse said she had felt “frightened” by his actions but was able to run to Euan Tennant’s waiting vehicle.
Mr Tennant said that upon entering his car, Miss McDonald told him “I was in fear for my life”.
He said: “When she got into the car she was stressed, upset and scared.
“Myself and my wife asked her what had happened and she said a man standing outside her flat had tried to get her to go back inside with him.”
Miss McDonald also told the court that when she returned home with a friend near to midnight, Uddin followed them up the stairs to her flat but fled when told that they would call the police.
A second woman, Susan Cameron, told the court that she had been left terrified after Uddin tried to enter her flat while she was home alone with her young baby.
She said he had spent some time standing at the unlocked door of her flat before disappearing from sight, allowing her to secure her property without him realising.
The 42-year-old later returned and tried the handle of the flat but was unable to gain access.
Uddin, who is employed as a chef at Blairgowrie’s Sampan restaurant, denies conducting himself in a disorderly manner by approaching Miss Cameron and asking if she lived alone, following her up the stairs, repeatedly lingering in the hall outside her flat and staring at her property.
He is further alleged to have repeatedly rung the block’s entry buzzer requesting entry, and tried the door handle and rattled the letter box at Miss Cameron’s flat in Riverside Court, Blairgowrie between August 2 and 4 last year.
He also denied approaching Miss McDonald asking her where she lived and repeatedly requesting she take him to her flat for a look around, taking hold of her wrist and attempting to usher her into the block of flats and, on a different occasion, staring at Miss McDonald and her friend Kaelay Duncan before repeatedly asking to enter her flat in Riverside Court on August 4.
The case against Uddin, formerly of Riverside Court, Rattray, was continued by Sheriff Richard McFarlane and he was remanded in custody.
