约翰·莱斯利因被指控性侵受审

The former television presenter John Leslie has gone on trial charged with sexually assaulting a woman during her bachelorette party at an Edinburgh club.

The woman told Edinburgh Sheriff Court she was dancing with Leslie at the Attik club in Tollcross, when he pulled her closer and put his hand down the back of her trousers*.

Leslie, appearing under his real name John Stott, denies the charge.

The 53-year-old is on trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The woman told the court that she had recognized Leslie when she entered the nightclub in June last year, and had spoken to him during the night.

She said that while she had been dancing with friends at a stag party later in the evening, Leslie had approached her and said “be careful, you’re getting married.”

She thought he was being “protective” and suggested they dance together.

“We’d been going in circles then he pulled me closer,” she said.

“I did feel uncomfortable but thought I was maybe reading too much into it.”

She said she gave her friend “a look” to make her aware she was uncomfortable.

“After that I felt his hand go down my trousers at the back,” she said.

“I didn’t know how to react. I made even more of a look to my friend because I knew I needed to be out of that situation.”

(SD-Agencies)