Teenage girl 'visibly upset' when dad picked her up after alleged rape
Lee McMullan and Darren Hunter are co-accused of the rape in December 2017
Last updated 4th Nov 2019
A father said his schoolgirl daughter was “visibly upset” when he picked her up after she was allegedly raped by a police officer and his friend.
The man recalled collecting the 17 year-old in Glasgow days before Christmas 2017.
The girl, now 19, is said to have been earlier sexually assaulted by Lee McMullan (33) and Darren Hunter (30) at a flat in the city's Dennistoun.
Her 45 year-old dad today told jurors how he then drove to a local police station with his daughter.
McMullan and Hunter both deny a rape charge at the High Court in Glasgow. They claim any sex was consensual.
McMullan was a serving police officer at the time in the city's G division.
The girl's dad recalled how his daughter had gone out the night before he picked her up.
Jurors have heard how she went to a nightclub in Ayr, South Ayrshire with a friend.
She drank wine and cocktails that night before recalling being in a hotel room with two men she did not know.
The girl said she later woke up naked in a flat with the same individuals also there.
She has claimed she had no memory of having sex with anyone.
Her dad today said he was asked via his wife to collect his daughter.
He recalled driving to the east end of Glasgow, but did not know the area well.
The witness said: “My daughter got in my van. She was visibly upset, she was distressed.
“She had been crying. She was crying. She just looked not very well.”
He admitted he could “smell” alcohol from the teenager.
The dad said his daughter's “emotional state” was mixed between being “in tears” and “angry”.
He managed to get directions to the nearest police station, where they both then went.
McMullan's QC Shelagh McCall asked the witness if his daughter had been “angry” at him.
He replied: “Yes, as I was upset also.”
Miss McCall: “She has said that you started shouting at her. Did you?”
The dad: “Yes.”
McMullan and Hunter also deny supplying cocaine to the girl at a Premier Inn hotel in Ayr.
The trial, before Lord Burns, continues.
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