An emergency worker has told a court a court she was sexually assaulted by a colleague – as they were driving an expectant mum to hospital at 60mph.
The woman was giving evidence on the second day of the trial of paramedic David Lee.
He is accused of a series of sex attacks on fellow ambulance workers, some of them while they were responding to 999 calls.
He is alleged to have groped four colleagues and indecently exposed himself to two.
The 31-year-old denies a total of 15 charges and has lodged a special defence claiming any sexual activity with the women was consensual.
At Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday, one of his alleged victims told the court Lee grabbed her hand and made her touch him while she was driving an ambulance from Aberdeen to Kirkcaldy in Fife.
The 28-year-old ambulance technician, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said a pregnant woman was in the vehicle at the time.
She said Lee took her hand off the gear stick and made her touch him.
She said he was aroused at the time.
She told the jury of seven men and eight women: “I said ‘stop it, I’m driving at 60mph down a dual carriageway with a pregnant woman and a midwife in the back’.
“He giggled and asked if I was being moody.”
The court heard that after leaving the midwife and mum-to-be at the hospital, the ambulance driver stopped for a cigarette behind a petrol station.
She claimed that Lee put his hands on her hips and pushed her up against the vehicle.
And the woman said that on way back up the road, after stopping to get food at a McDonald’s in Dundee, Lee then exposed himself to her in the back of the ambulance.
She said: “David unzipped his uniform trousers. I said you have got five seconds to put that away or I’m going to open the door.
“He just giggled.”
During her evidence the woman also claimed Lee would unfasten her seatbelt while she was driving, put latex gloves down her top, asked to touch her breasts and thrust himself towards her on various occasions.
Lee, of Keir Circle, Westhill, is also alleged to have told a fellow member of staff: “We’re all animals and mammals, we are not meant to be monogamous.”
The court heard that he had been working with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), based in Aberdeen, for some time before the women joined the service.
At the time he is alleged to have committed the offences – between 2013-15 – he was a fully qualified ambulance technician and was training to be a paramedic.
A second woman told the court yesterday she had considered Lee a “nice guy” when she began working for the ambulance service in 2013.
But she said that on a call-out where they had been paired-up he asked her if she wanted to “have fun”.
When asked by fiscal depute David Bernard what she thought Lee had meant by “fun” she answered: “I would think that it would be sex.”
The trial, before Sheriff Graeme Napier, continues.
