A churchman is to face trial by jury, accused of indecently assaulting a woman by stuffing cash into her bra and another woman by hugging her and making sexual remarks to her at an airport.
Walter Masocha, 51, described on court papers as living at The Church of Agape in Stirling, is said to indecently assaulted the first alleged victim on various occasions over a three-and-a-half year period between January 2007 and June 2010 at an address in Bridge of Allan.
He is also alleged to have indecently and sexually assaulted a second woman, on various occasions between March 2008 and the end of May 2011, both at his home near Stirling and at Edinburgh Airport.
Masocha entered pleas of not guilty at Stirling Sheriff Court on Tuesday to a total of three charges against him, one involving the first woman and two involving the second.
The court heard that the Crown needed time to finalise an application for allegedly-vulnerable witnesses to give evidence by special arrangements, and for Masocha’s defence team to receive papers and get funding in place.
Sheriff Gillian Wade QC ordered the case to be set down for trial in a jury sitting at Stirling starting on April 25, with a preliminary hearing on April 12.