Two men have gone on trial accused of murdering a pensioner who died more than a year after being found badly injured at his Moray home.
Garry Munro and Reece Munro – known as Kray – are accused of attacking James Robson at his house in Buckie.
They are alleged to have repeatedly kicked and stamped on the 66-year-old’s head and body and repeatedly punched him on the head and body.
Prosecutors claim that Mr Robson was so severely injured that he later died at Seafield Hospital in Buckie, and that the two accused murdered him.
Both Munro, 32, a prisoner at Shotts, and 19-year-old Kray, who is detained at Polmont young offenders institution, deny murder.
On the opening day of their trial at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, Kray’s mother Georgina said that Mr Robson, who was her neighbour, was “creepy”.
The 44-year-old told the jury that he showed her “very unwanted attention” when she was travelling on a bus with her former partner Munro.
Ms Kray said that Mr Robson sat close to the pair and that he “looked down” her top.
The court heard Munro tried to block Mr Robson’s view by putting his hand over Ms Kray’s chest.
She said she did not feel comfortable in the pensioner’s presence.
She added: “He was creepy. He was deaf. He had his television up a lot. He liked to drink a lot. It was just his manner. He made me feel uncomfortable.”
Ms told the court that she lived beside Mr Robson in Buckie’s Blantyre Terrace.
She said that on the evening of July 10, 2012, Munro had left their home to go to Mr Robson’s property.
The court heard that somebody was heard shouting “don’t look at my wife” in the moments following Mr Munro leaving the property.
Ms Kray said her son Reece then left her house to see what was happening and that she then heard a “lot of thumps” coming from Mr Robson’s flat.
She said Munro then came back to her property and washed some blood off the training shoes he was wearing.
Ms Kray told the court that she then left her property to go to Mr Robson’s house and found him on the ground injured.
She added: “Jim was flat on his back basically. It was not good at all.
“His head looked like it had been a watermelon that had been stamped on.
“There was blood everywhere. It was all over his face. He was breathing like he was snoring.”
Munro and Kray are accused of attacking Mr Robson on July 10, 2012. He died on June 15, 2013
The trial, before Lord Glennie, continues.