Eleven persons are accused collaborating in a baby sexual abuse ring additionally allegedly involving witchcraft, severe violence and neglect.
The seven males and 4 ladies confronted a 14-page indictment itemizing 43 completely different prices throughout a listening to on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow on Monday. The accusations primarily centre round three younger kids - two ladies and a boy - between January 2010 and March 2020 at varied addresses within the Townhead, Maryhill and Craigend areas of Glasgow.
They embody claims the trio had been raped at completely different occasions whereas a few of the group did "clap, cheer and verbally encourage" in addition to video report what was occurring. One of many younger ladies was mentioned to have been shut in a microwave throughout an try and kill her.
It additionally alleged the youngsters had been compelled to participate in satanic "seances" and made to kill animals. Iain Owens, 43, Elaine Lannery, 38, Lesley Williams, 40, Paul Brannan, 40, Marianne Gallagher, 37, Scott Forbes, 49, Barry Watson, 46, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 44, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, deny the fees they face.
Owens and Lannery first face a cost of neglecting 4 children. The accusation contains a declare they received a younger boy to "courier managed medication" on their behalf.
It's then mentioned 10 of the group - aside from Forbes - assaulted the elder lady to the hazard of her life beginning when she was six. This included operating a wheelchair into her legs and in addition placing a black plastic bag over her head affecting her respiration.
The lady was additionally allegedly made to eat cat meals in addition to take medication and alcohol. The subsequent cost states Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan and Gallagher assaulted the younger boy.
It's mentioned he was put in a shower which he was allegedly instructed was full of blood. Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan and Clark are then accused of the tried homicide of the youthful of the 2 ladies beginning when she was simply weeks previous.
This cost - which runs between December 2015 and June 2019 - states she was made to "act like a canine" and eat pet meals. It additionally mentioned the group did chase the kid whereas sporting a satan masks.
She was additionally allegedly hung by her jumper from a nail on the wall. The homicide bid cost lastly claims the lady was pushed into and trapped inside a microwave, an oven, a fridge freezer and varied cabinets.
The subsequent cost claims Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan assaulted the opposite baby talked about within the earlier neglect accusation. Owens and Lannery are then accused of threatening one of many younger ladies that they'd organized for her to go to Turkey with a male stranger.
Prosecutors state all 11 are mentioned to have gotten the boy and the older lady to participate in "seances (and) use a Ouija board...to name on spirits and demons". In addition they allegedly received the youngsters concerned in "witchcraft" main them to imagine that they themselves had "metamorphosed into animals".
The 11 are additional mentioned to have worn cloaks and satan horns as effectively making the younger boy stab a budgie to dying. The group are additionally accused of killing various canine together with getting the youngsters to assault the animals.
Owens alone then faces various prices that he raped the older lady together with with Watson, Brannan, Clark and Forbes. Owens and Lannery go on to be accused of a intercourse abuse cost involving the boy and the youthful lady.
A separate allegation states the entire group had been then allegedly concerned within the rape on varied events of the older lady. It's claimed they received her to take drink and illicit medication.
The cost states whereas she was being sexually assaulted Lannery, Williams, Laing and Gallagher did "clap, cheer and verbally encourage" the alleged crime, which was additionally video recorded. The lady was mentioned to be 10 when it began.
Forbes alone subsequent faces an indecent photos accusation. Prosecutors additional state Gachagan, Laing, Carr, Forbes and Watson allegedly paid for "sexual companies" for 3 of the youngsters.
Two separate prices declare Owens and Lannery did "facilitate" this There are then a string of accusations detailing additional alleged crimes in opposition to all three kids. The indictment goes on to state Owens and Lannery took half within the rape of the boy.
All 11 additionally allegedly abused him with the lads this time had been mentioned to have "cheered" whereas it was happening. The subsequent cost claims Owens and Lannery had intercourse in entrance of youngsters.
Owens and Brannan go on to face an accusation of raping the boy. The duo together with Lannery and Williams are additionally mentioned to have made him watch a video of one of many ladies being attacked.
Lannery is then charged with molesting the youthful lady earlier than it's claimed she, Owens, Williams and Brannan raped her. The entire group go on to face the identical crime with the lady allegedly held down in a cot.
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As this was mentioned to be occurring, the ladies are accused of clapping and cheering whereas the boy and older lady had been shut in a room. The elder baby was additionally mentioned to have been made to "function a digicam and create video footage" of a few of the abuse.
Owens and Lannery then face prices of trying to defeat the ends of justice and trying to pervert the course of justice. This consists of claims the older lady was threatened and her name to the police was disconnected.
It is usually mentioned makes an attempt had been made to "pressurise" two of the kids across the time of police interviews. In addition they allegedly removed objects to keep away from prosecution.
The group additional face separate medication prices. Gachagan is lastly accused of lewd behaviour in direction of one other younger lady within the mid-Nineties in Glasgow's Townhead.
Maureen Goudie, Steven McHendrie, Robert Brown, James McLean and Douglas Gachagan are additionally talked about as being concerned in various the fees. However, the indictment states they're now "deceased".
Owens and Lannery, of Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire, Brannan and Clark, of Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Forbes of Townhead, Gallagher and Gachagan, of Maryhill, Watson, of Mount Vernon, all Glasgow deny the fees. Williams, of Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire in addition to Laing, of Rutherglen, close to Glasgow, additionally plead not responsible.
Carr, of Townhead, didn't seem within the dock additionally pled not responsible by his defence counsel Brian McConnachie QC. Gallagher was excused from the dock in the course of the listening to after taking unwell.
Decide Lord Beckett requested prosecutor Kath Harper about her eight week trial estimate. She replied: "It is extraordinarily troublesome [to tell] on this case. The recorded interviews will take three weeks - eight weeks is an estimate for the the trial which I believe shall be perhaps six weeks."
Lord Beckett set an eight week trial on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow for September subsequent yr. An extra listening to was additionally mounted for October.
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