A man has told a court he did not know whether he was “alive or dead” during an alleged armed robbery of his north-east home.
Slessor Buchan and Scott Fowler have gone on trial accused of carrying out an armed robbery at the home of Colin Verral on Gray Street in Fraserburgh in January this year.
The duo are accused of demanding drugs and money, pointing a gun into his face, shooting it into the ceiling, kneeing his face and taking money and an iPhone while acting with others.
And today Mr Verral told the High Court in Aberdeen he remembered one man wearing an orange mask and another wearing a black and blue one come into his home.
He said the one in the orange pointed the gun in his face and the two men took his trousers off and took a wallet out while another woman counted it.
Advocate depute Keith O’Mahony asked him what happened next.
He said the gun was fired at the ceiling and then everyone left.
He added: “I think I blanked out.
“I was not sure if I was alive or dead.”
He was later asked if he would recognise either men again but said he would not.
Mr O’Mahony asked him if anyone in the courtroom resembled the men involved and he said Fowler resembled the man in the orange mask and Buchan matched the one in the black and blue mask.
Fowler, 39, and Buchan, 37, both deny the charges against them.
The trial, before Lord Uist, continues.
