A trial has heard claims that two men were robbed at gunpoint in Dunfermline in incidents connected with buying drugs.
One man told police a gun was put in his mouth as he was robbed in a pub car park in the early hours after going there to buy cannabis.
Robert Wallis, 27, a prisoner at Perth, denies that between September 1 and 30 2014, at Townhill Road and the car park of National Tyres and Autocare, Gardener Street, while acting with another, he assaulted Reece Smith, placed a rope around his neck, strangled him with the rope, struck him on the body with a metal pole, uttered threats of violence towards him and robbed him of £200.
He also denies that on January 1 2015 at the car park of Lauders Bar, Townhill Road, he and another man assaulted Andrew Wallace, punched him on the head, kicked him on the body, causing him to fall to the ground and thereafter placed a handgun into his mouth, demanded money from him and robbed him of £240.
Wallis further denies that on January 12 2015 at the Kingsgate Shopping Centre he uttered threats to Andrew Wallace and stated that he would assault him.
In his evidence at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Mr Smith said he could not remember the incident because of the drugs he was taking at the time.
However, he accepted the police statement he gave in which he told officers about being attacked in a car and being attacked with a rope and a pole.
Mr Smith also said that when in the car he was told a person in the back seat had a gun and “wasn’t afraid to use it”.
Mr Wallace, from Lochgelly, also accepted as fact the statement he gave to police.
He told officers that he was taken around the back of Lauders Bar in the early hours when he had arranged to buy drugs.
He said he was kicked to the ground and had a gun put in his mouth which “rattled” off his teeth.
He was then robbed of the money he had taken to buy the drugs, he claimed.
Mr Wallace said it was not Wallis, a person he did not previously know, but the other man who placed the gun in his mouth.
He also told police that he was later threatened in the Kingsgate Centre by the man he knew only as ‘Rab’.
Mr Wallace claimed he was told: “Wait until there’s no cameras about and I’ll smash you.”
The trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court continues.