A Tayside doctor is accused of abducting and raping a woman, and alleged sex attacks on two others.
Matthew Adam, 35, faced the claims on Friday during a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
The abduction and rape charges span from April 2013 to August 2019. They are said to have taken place at a location in Kirriemuir.
It is alleged Adam bound the woman’s wrists and ankles, tied her to a bed and left her in that state overnight on a number of occasions.
The rape charge includes claims he placed a shotgun against the woman’s head and made her “assume various poses”.
Adam also allegedly forced a tablet containing an unknown substance into her mouth leading to her losing consciousness.
The indictment further accuses him of attacking the woman with a rolling pin, pressing lit matches against her and choking her.
He is separately charged with sexually assaulting two other women in January and December 2015.
Prosecutors claim this was “in course of employment as a general medical practitioner”.
One allegation is said to have occurred at a medical centre in Forfar, Angus, while the other was at a house in the town.
Adam faces a further charge of exposing himself in June this year in St Margaret’s Hospital in Auchterarder, Perthshire.
His advocate Tony Lenehan on Friday pled not guilty on his behalf.
Lord Mulholland set a trial due to begin on May 4 in Edinburgh.
The case could last up to six days.
Adam is also said to have worked in Crieff.
