Two Elgin men have gone on trial accused of holding a disabled woman at knifepoint as they robbed her home.
Ian Wilcox, 38, and Dean Wells, 25, both of Elgin, are accused of assaulting and robbing Dianna Weir at an address in Elgin.
The men deny the charge, and have gone on trial at the town’s sheriff court.
Yesterday, Ms Weir, 36, described the two accused barging into her then flat, on the town’s Cockmuir Place, before pushing her into the kitchen.
The court heard the alleged invaders then held her mouth shut to stop her screaming to neighbours for help.
She said she was ordered take her top and bra off while a laptop and video camera were stolen from her flat.
Miss Weir, who gave evidence from behind a screen, told fiscal Ross Carvel that Wilcox, c/o Hermes Road, Elgin, “brandished” a kitchen knife at her while Wells, of Kingsmills, Elgin, searched the rest of her home.
Mr Carvel said: “How did Mr Wilcox seem at this time?”
Miss Weir replied: “It was like he was getting off on it. He was feeling my breasts and laughing. He took my top off but I had a bra on. He told me to take my bra off too.
“Dean came back to the kitchen and he said ‘let’s go’ four times.”
However, Wilcox’s defence solicitor Ian Houston dismissed Miss Weir’s account as “utter nonsense” – instead suggesting that she had brandished the knife at his client during an argument and he wrestled it off her in self-defence.
Well’s defence agent Brent Lockie cast doubt on whether Miss Weir was able to identify his client.
He said: “When he reappeared he said ‘let’s go’ four times very quickly – so you only saw him very briefly at the start and briefly at the end.”
The trial continues today.