Trial of Tayside GP accused of rape and abduction delayed by two months

The case of a Tayside doctor accused of abduction, rape and sexual assault has been delayed.

Matthew Adam faces charges including an alleged rape during which he is said to have put a shotgun to a woman’s head.

He is also alleged to have tied her to a bed and left her overnight on a number of occasions.

The abduction and rape charges span from April 2013 to August 2019 and are said to have taken place at a location in Kirriemuir.

Adam, 35, also allegedly forced a tablet containing an unknown substance into the woman’s mouth, leading to her losing consciousness.

He is separately charged with sexually assaulting two other women in January and December 2015 during his “course of employment” as a GP.

One allegation centres on a medical centre in Forfar and the other at a house in the town.

Adam faces a further charge of exposing himself in June last year in St Margaret’s Hospital in Auchterarder.

A  further preliminary hearing has been fixed in July.