An islander has denied raping three women in the Western Isles.
Richard Baker of Lewis is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
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He also faces a number of allegations of assault and attacking women.
He denied pulling and ripping a woman’s clothes, punching and pushing her, slapping her on her head and body, squeezing her throat, and taking “a chunk” out of her knee after allegedly throwing a knife at her.
Baker insisted: “It didn’t happened. She was asking to see (the knife) and I passed it over.
Was the woman required to see a doctor asked his defence counsel John McElroy.
“No” replied Baker.
The court heard he allegedly caused a woman to fall, burn her thumbs with a lit cigarette lighter, drag her to the bathroom, remove her clothes and push her into the shower.
“She was scared what would happen” if she didn’t have intercourse said Mr McElroy.
She said you were “cruel” and headbutted her causing her nose to bleed, “pulling her along by the hair and saying woof woof. Did that happen?” he added.
Baker denied it did and maintained they had sex “because both wanted it.”
He is also accused of forcing a mattress on top of her, folding her up like a sandwich and pinning her down.
That “would take some physical effort“ and “just did not happen,” he told the court.
Sex with another woman took place in a “graveyard car park” in his vehicle and not on a sofa in a house as she claimed, said Baker.
It was not rape but consensual, he added.
Baker agreed with prosecutor Allan Nicol he never raised his hand to any woman nor had sex if they didn’t want to.
“Are all the three lying?” queried Mr Nicol.
“Yes” responded Baker.
Mr Nicol said: “Maybe you are the unluckiest man in the world” with three different women putting forward similar stories.
The court later heard from a witness who said one of the women “clearly” informed her Baker “never raped her.”
Another witness told Mr McElroy the woman said Baker “hadn’t done anything bad to her and he was the best.”
Richard Baker denies all the charges.
The trial before Judge Sean Murphy continues.
Islander denies rape charges
16 January 2018