THE High Court has this week heard allegations against a Cowdenbeath man including indecent assaults.

David Ferguson (60), from Blamey Crescent, appeared at the High Court, in Livingston, on Monday when he denied three charges of rape, two indecent assaults and a single charge of lewd and libidinous practices and behaviour dating back over 20 years.

The Crown has alleged that the offences were committed at his home and in other places in Fife between August 1994 and January 2009.

One woman, now aged 24, told the Court on Monday that Ferguson had indecently assaulted her and raped her on several occasions when she was aged between seven and 12.

Another, now aged 20, told Judge, Lord Kinclaven, that she was frequently subjected to sexual assaults in accused’s home and once in a stairwell off Cowdenbeath High Street.

The 24 year-old told the jury that she had regularly gone to Ferguson’s home to borrow videos for her grandmother and was too scared to tell anyone about her experiences because he had said that he would do the same to her little sister.

The woman eventually made a detailed account of what had been happening in 2008 and sent a letter to police. She claimed he would follow her into a hall cupboard where the videos were stored and as her to ‘do stuff’.

The other woman told of how she was similarly abused and talked about one incident when Ferguson met her off the school bus and took her up a stairwell, before groping her.

She claimed that he raped her twice in his home when she was aged 14 and 15.

She said that eventually she told her father of her experiences and he persuaded her to go to the police.

The trial at the High Court in Livingston continues.