A father spoke about how his family’s festive season was ruined when they were sent “revenge porn” videos of one of his daughters as they sat down to their Christmas dinner.
Clive Weatherhogg is standing trial at Dundee Sheriff Court accused of coercing a woman into having sex with a man he found on the internet, making them film their liaisons then sending the videos to the woman’s family over Christmas 2014.
The woman’s father told the jury that he, the victim, his other daughters and his grandchildren had gathered on Christmas Day 2014 for dinner at an address in Fife and that one of his daughters received a text message containing a video of the victim having sex with Edward Amobi.
The 69-year-old father of the victim told the court the mood at the dinner was already “subdued” as it was the family’s first Christmas since the loss of his wife.
Mr Amobi earlier told the trial how Weatherhogg had set up a string of hotel sex liaisons between him and the woman.
The jury heard a string of extraordinary allegations, including that Weatherhogg wanted the pair to video call him during one of their romps and that when Mr Amobi turned down the suggestion of a threesome he asked for a video of a sex session.
Mr Amobi, 40, told the court that at one point he was asked to buy a “CB600 male chastity device” and send it to the woman to give to Weatherhogg.
He said that during one of the liaisons Weatherhogg had gone as far as to escort the pair to a hotel room and undress the woman before leaving them to have sex while he sat in the bar downstairs.
Mr Amobi added that Weatherhogg was so desperate to be in the room while they had sex that he offered to be “tied to a chair” during a romp.
He added that he had later discovered a text on his wife’s phone from “Clive Cuckold” informing Mr Amobi’s wife of his romps with the woman.
In her evidence the woman said she felt “blackmailed” by Weatherhogg into having sex with Mr Amobi.
She added that Weatherhogg booked hotels for the pair to have sex in and demanded photographs and videos as proof. She told the jury: “He wanted to Facetime me while we were having sex, but I wouldn’t agree to it.
“Then he said he wanted to phone and listen and if I wouldn’t agree to that then he wanted me to video it.”
Weatherhogg, 42, of Balmalcolm, by Cupar, pleaded not guilty on indictment to three charges under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act, one under the Communications Act and one of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.
The coercion is said to have taken place between September 10 2013 and September 17 2014 at addresses in Kent and Fife.
The videos were allegedly sent on December 22 and December 25 2014 at addresses in north-east Fife.
The trial, before Sheriff George Way and a jury of nine men and six women, continues.