Man ‘assaulted child’

GREGOR Dickson, 42, of Provost Black Drive, Tayport, will stand trial on May 11 at Dundee Sheriff Court.

Dickson denies assaulting a child by repeatedly holding and striking the child on the head and body, pulling the child to the ground, sitting on the child, pushing the child against a wall, applying pressure to the child’s throat, striking the child on the head, and twisting the child’s arm with excessive force, to the child’s injury.