A retired north-east police officer has gone on trial accused of historic sexual offences and indecent acts involving girls as young as 12.
Gordon Raeper, 66, is facing allegations that he exposed and sexually touched himself in front of two children between 1984 and 2004 – asking one to attach bondage gear to him.
Raeper is also accused of attempting to extort two women into having a threesome with him.
The former officer – who was a serving police officer in Aberdeen and Forres for 27 years – faces a total of seven charges involving two children and three women.
Two charges relate to physical assault against two women while one charge involves the sexual assault of another.
Raeper, of Dunshillock, Mintlaw, denies all the charges against him.
Former cop allegedly wore bondage gear
Raeper is accused of wearing bondage gear and exposing himself to a 12-year-old girl between November 2000 and November 2004.
It’s alleged the former cop, who also served in the Dragoon Guards, touched himself in the girl’s presence and attempted to get her to watch a homemade sex film involving him and another woman.
Raeper is further accused of inducing her to attach chains to his wrists and to place a ball-gag in his mouth before asking her to perform oral sex.
While giving evidence, Raeper admitted owning bondage gear but claimed it had leather straps, not chains, because “chains would have ruined the woodwork” of his bed.
It was also alleged that on various occasions between April 1984 and April 1985 that her showed an underage girl explicit pictures from the book The Joy of Sex and asked her if she saw “anything she fancied?”.
He then attempted to kiss the child and touch her private parts, it is claimed.
The former police officer is also facing additional charges that he sexually assaulted a woman by touching her breasts without permission. He’s also alleged to have slapped her so hard that she fell to the ground.
He also allegedly assaulted another woman by pushing her out of a back door.
In response to these allegations, Raeper told defence counsel Andrew Crosbie that he had pushed the woman but only because she had thrown a tin of beans at him and had been “clawing” at his eyes.
Accused denies extorting women for sex
Raeper is also accused of threatening to expose a lesbian relationship that a woman was having with a co-worker unless both of them had a threesome with him.
However, he denies that any sexual encounter ever took place, claiming that the two women climbed into bed with him while drunk and that he turned away from the women.
During cross-examination by fiscal depute Christy Ward, Raeper accepted her claim that “disclosing such a relationship in those days could have had serious implications”.
But he denied making threats to disclose the relationship for his own sexual gratification.
The trial, presided over by Sheriff Ian Wallace, will hear closing speeches by the Crown and Raeper’s defence team on Tuesday.
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