Drunk said: your wife wants to be with me

But wife wanted man to leave the house

A Stirling man found a drunk in his house, claiming his wife wanted to leave him.

He was giving evidence on the second day of a jury trial of Robert Kemp, who is accused of sexually assaulting the woman at a house in Stirling in June.

It is alleged that 39-year-old Kemp, of Edzell Drive, entered the house uninvited, kissed the woman on the neck and face and repeatedly touched her over her clothing and seized her around the waist while she was asleep and unable to give or withhold consent.

The witness said he left the house to walk his dog that morning about 2.30am.

He saw David Kemp, who he had known for about 20 years and who had been at his home “once or twice.” His wife also knew the accused but they never socialised, he said.

When he met Kemp that morning he did not get much sense out of him.

He said Kemp had been drinking and was reeking of alcohol.

Kemp, who had a half pint glass with some liquid in it, was not walking normally and dawdling, he said.

The fiscal depute asked him if he asked Kemp to go to his home and wait there for five to ten minutes. He replied: “I didn’t tell him to go anywhere near my house.”

He estimated that the conversation lasted for a minute or so and he last saw Kemp heading towards the street where the witness lived.

When he got back to his home he entered via the closed front door and saw his wife come through the kitchen doorway and run along the hall and into the bathroom.

She said: “You had better get that c*** out of my house.”

She was referring to Kemp, who was sitting at a kitchen table .

His wife was “really upset about somebody being in the house” and he asked Kemp: “What are you doing here?”.

Kemp answered: “She doesn’t want to be with you. “She wants to be with me.” Asked if he had been aware of any romantic involvement between Kemp and his wife, he replied: “Certainly not.”

The trial before Sheriff Wyllie Robertson continues.