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Teenager gives evidence in Basshunter sexual assault case
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 20 May 2011
A teenager from Kirkcaldy has given evidence as the previously reported sexual assault case against Basshunter, aka Swedish producer Jonas Altberg, came to trial.
The producer is accused of assaulting two female fans at Kitty’s nightclub in Kirkcaldy where he was performing last December. He appeared in court last January to enter a not-guilty plea, when the date for the full trial was set for this month.
According to The Daily Record, the nineteen year old girl told the court that she and her cousin had queued up to have their photos taken with Altberg following his performance. When they met him, she said he made a crude sexual remark to her cousin, which had “surprised” them, but they had “tried to laugh it off”.
She continued: “He grabbed our heads and pushed them both towards crotch level. As we got back up there were flashes going off, but I don’t know if there were any other photos taken. We went to leave the VIP area but [my cousin] was pulled back. She was held round the waist and bent over, and her dress was lifted. Her dress normally sat just above the knee, and it was lifted to around waist level. She was wearing a thong underneath. He pulled up her thong, exposing her bottom from behind, and then skelped her on the right hand side of her bum”.
She described Altberg as being “drunk and hyper”, and said that he’d acted similarly towards other women waiting to meet him. She added: “The other girls seemed fine with it, but I didn’t know them so it wasn’t for me to judge their reaction”.
The woman admitted that though she was “shocked and embarrassed” by the incident, she and her cousin did not immediately go to the police, only doing so the next day, after her cousin had contacted a newspaper.
Noting the girls had gone to the papers before the police, Altberg’s lawyer, Ian Duguid QC, argued that “the obvious implication is that she [made the claims because she] would get some publicity from it”. But the woman countered by arguing she and her cousin simply “didn’t know who to turn to”.
The case continues.
