A student who received more than £3,000 in compensation after his ear was bitten off by a soldier has appeared in court himself accused of committing a series of sexual offences.
Peter Reid, who had hopes of becoming a TV news anchor, was socialising in an Aberdeen nightclub in December 2014 when squaddie Scott Melvin attacked him, ripping off the back of his ear.
Melvin admitted committing the assault against the 21-year-old and in August he was ordered to pay Reid £3,600 in compensation.
But yesterday, it was Reid who found himself in the dock, accused of five charges alleged to have been committed against young women between March 2013 and December 2014.
The Robert Gordon University student is accused of stalking two women for months.
He is also alleged to have had sex with a 15-year-old girl and sent “sexual” images to a woman and a child.
Prosecutors claim that Reid, of 58 Sunnybank Road, Aberdeen, placed one of his alleged victims in a state of fear and alarm over the course of a month by repeatedly shouting and swearing at her. It is alleged on one occasion he threatened to murder her and dispose of her body.
Court papers allege that Reid also denied her access to her family and repeatedly battered her by kicking her on the body and pulling her hair.
On one occasion it is claimed that he threw her clothes out onto the street and refused to let her into the property when she was standing out in the street in a state of undress.
It is alleged that he also stalked a teenager over the course of three months.
Court papers state he pushed her into a bath of hot water, denied her access to food and refused to allow her to use the toilet.
It is also claimed he would repeatedly park outside her work and repeatedly punch her to the face.
Reid denies the allegations against him and will go on trial later this year.