A Bridge of Allan man has gone on trial accused of raping five women, one while she was still a child, and sexually assaulting a sixth woman, as well as several charges of stalking.
Lewis Grant, 28, is said to have carried out the crimes, from southern Scotland to Stirling, over a nine year period, allegedly beginning in a park in Dumfries in 2011 when he was 16 and his alleged victim a child of just 15.
Two of the adult women allegedly raped are said to have had their lives endangered by Grant – one, allegedly, by having a skipping rope tightened round her neck during an alleged incident in Stirling University accommodation.
