Scott Lannister, 34, is accused of intercourse assaults on a lady and a person whom he’s mentioned to have compelled to put on canine collars throughout a sequence of alleged incidents.
The girl, 21, whose proof was pre-recorded and performed to a jury mentioned she had slept in a canine mattress in a cabinet, been crushed by Lannister with a leather-stripped instrument known as “the Scorpion”.
She additionally advised of claims she was suspended from his ceiling by a rope till she handed out whereas residing with Lannister in Stirling.
She mentioned she met Lannister in 2019.
She mentioned she slept with Lannister in his room, and after that within the cabinet.
She advised prosecutor John Keenan KC that “a point came” when Lannister started to do issues to her which she had not consented to.
She mentioned: “I’d get hit with something he nicknamed ‘The Scorpion’.”
She described this as a metallic pole with leather-based strips and studs ultimately.
She mentioned Lannister would hit her “extremely hard” with The Scorpion though she’d be begging him to not and screaming for him to cease.
She mentioned this had began as “a consensual BDSM thing” however shortly became a non-consensual type of punishment.
She mentioned: “When it began getting extraordinarily violent I positively didn’t need that to occur.
“He pressured me to put on a pup hood in public – mainly only a dog-like masks made out of neoprene.
“Sometimes I’d wear a fuzzy clip-on tail.”
In June 2020, she mentioned he put a rope around her neck connected to the ceiling then kicked away a stool she was standing on – though she advised him to not.
She panicked, she mentioned, then thought she will need to have blacked out, and wakened with one in all her eyes swollen shut.
The High Court in Stirling heard that when police searched Lannister’s flat within the metropolis’s Mayfield Court they discovered greater than 20 canine collars and leads, three “floggers”, a picket baton, metallic chains, two rubber canine masks and different objects.
Lannister, also called Scott Hanlon, is claimed to have engaged in a course of abusive behaviour in direction of the lady and man.
It is alleged that he “caused” the lady to be suspended by a rope from the ceiling in order that the rope compressed her throat and she or he misplaced consciousness, earlier than chopping the rope so she fell onto the ground and struck her face.
These offences are alleged to have taken place between September 1, 2019 and June 28, 2020.
Lannister can also be alleged to have raped the person on varied events between September 24 and December 18 final yr.
It is alleged that Lannister seized him by a canine collar he was then sporting on his neck earlier than finishing up the alleged rapes.
On one event it’s alleged he annally raped the person whereas the alleged sufferer was having a epileptic match.
Lannister, of Stirling, who’s represented by Bert Kerrigan KC, pleads not responsible to a complete of six costs and claims the intercourse acts had been consensual.
In reply to questioning by Janice Green, junior counsel for Lannister, the lady agreed that at first she had felt “happy and carefree when she was living as a puppy”.
She agreed that she had advised police in an announcement: “When I’m a puppy it’s a contented, carefree house. I’m fairly excitable after I’m a puppy.
Referring to BDSM, Miss Green requested, “Is it right to say that sometimes pain is pleasure in that context?”
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The girl replied, “Um, yes.”
The trial earlier than Judge Lord Scott continues.
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