A bride-to-be has claimed she was sexually assaulted by a Magic Mike-style stripper during his performance at her hen party.
The 32-year-old solicitor said she was ‘shocked’ and ‘froze’ when Stuart Kennedy – dressed as a firefighter – burst into the party at Crieff Hydro, a four-star hotel resort in Perthshire, Scotland.
She told a trial at Perth Sheriff Court that she was embarrassed and felt forced to participate in the show after it was secretly arranged by one of her sisters during a prosecco and pizza party.
The woman, a lawyer from the Highlands, claimed she repeatedly said ‘no thankyou’ to the 42-year-old performer but that he carried on despite her clearly being uncomfortable.
‘The door burst open and slammed hard against the opposite wall,’ she explained. ‘A man dressed in a firefighter’s uniform came in.
‘I began to realise he was there as some form of entertainment. I started crying and panicking. Eventually I understood he was there for me as he asked who the bride was.
‘I decided I had to grin and bear it and go through it. It’s not my preference, that kind of activity. I didn’t think I was in danger, just that it would be unpleasant and not to my taste.
‘Me storming off felt like it would be an over-reaction,’ she said, as she explained 15 members of the party were grouped into a lodge for the party.
‘I wasn’t fully appreciating what he was doing. I was just in shock. His crotch was within half a foot of my face. I was trying to communicate that I was not a willing participant.
‘I was just cringeing away from him constantly. He forced his hands between my thighs to open my legs. I resisted it but I was also frightened by now. His first move was to make me simulate giving him oral sex.
‘I started to comply with him because I didn’t know what he was going to do next. He still had his trousers on. He had sewn a fake erection into the crotch. It felt like a bean bag.
‘He was fiddling with the button on my shirt at one point. At my cleavage. There was more grinding against my thigh. I was trying to keep my legs together.’
She told the court Kennedy ‘violated’ her and licked her nose with his tongue, although she said it was not intentional as he was simulating kissing her.
‘He was behind me and went straight to grab both my breasts and jiggled them about. He saw some of the girls gasp. By now they were all panicking.
‘When he was not near me I bolted towards the door. I made it to the bathroom. I was physically sick. I vomited in the toilet. I was crying hysterically and screaming and grabbing my hair.’
Her younger sister told police in a statement: ‘He put his legs over her and did a Magic Mike sort of thing. He got his waist close to her face.
‘He was dry humping her while she was sat down. She was visibly upset and left. I think the way he stormed in gave us a fright and this triggered her.
‘I enjoyed myself and I don’t remember anything you wouldn’t expect from a stripper at a hen party.’
Kennedy denies sexually assaulting a named woman in Crieff Hydro. He denies repeatedly handling the woman’s thighs and private parts, attempting to kiss her, and handling her breasts and shaking them in Lodge 513 at the hotel.
The stripper, from Laurel Gardens, Aberdeen, further denies intentionally causing the same woman to participate in sexual activity by sitting on her, seizing her by the head and restraining her.
The charge alleges he induced her to drink from a penis-shaped straw, repeatedly thrust his hips towards her body, took hold of her arm and forced her to handle a fake penis, and seized her arms and placed them against his chest.
The trial, before Sheriff Paul Reid, continues.
