A man exposed himself in a public park and tried to get a woman to touch his body, the High Court has heard.
Gigi Ciriblan, 37, formerly of Dundee’s Baffin Street, is standing trial accused of carrying out a series of sex attacks in the city over an eight-day period.
At the High Court in Dunfermline, a woman told of an incident where Ciriblan allegedly exposed himself and tried to get her to touch him on the evening of August 22 last year.
Appearing in the witness box, the woman — who cannot be identified for legal reasons — said she was walking up Arbroath Road when he ran across the road and approached her.
She told the court that the man “was tanned and had a foreign accent”.
The pair then began walking up to Baxter Park.
The woman said: “He was trying to hold my hand all the way up the road till we got to Baxter Park.
“I got a funny feeling, so we sat on the bench.”
After speaking to the man further, the woman got up to walk away and he “grabbed” her, she said.
She told the court that she knocked the man to the ground and walked back to Arbroath Road.
The woman then said she met a friend later on who looked “shaken and scared”, and told her she had been raped earlier that day.
After hearing a description of the alleged culprit from her friend, they agreed it had been the same man responsible for both incidents.
In court, the woman was directed by advocate depute Stephen McCloy to her police statement taken in September 2016.
He read out parts of the statement that helped jog her memory further of the incident on the bench. She agreed that parts of her statement which claimed the man exposed himself and tried to make her touch his body were true.
She recalled: “He was trying to get me to touch it.
“But I never touched it.”
She said again that it was at this time she got up, only to be grabbed by him, before pushing him over and walking away.
Ciriblan’s defence counsel Matt Jackson then cross-examined the witness.
He said: “Can I suggest you were happy to hold his hand?”
The woman replied: “No. I kept pulling my hand away.”
Ciriblan is facing six charges of a sexual nature and another of assault, which are alleged to have been carried out in Dundee over an eight-day period in August last year.
He denies all the charges against him.
The trial, before judge Lord Beckett, continues.
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