Comments disabled Crime · Employment · Law · Scotland · Television · UK 

Witness accusing Big Brother star Jason Cowan of assault ‘thought he was gay’

by for PinkNews.co.uk
9 January 2013, 4:06pm

Former Big Brother runner-up Jason Cowan allegedly sexually assaulted a woman who had earlier thought he was gay, a jury has been told.

Cowan, a contestant on the show in 2004, denies performing a sex act on the partygoer during an overnight stay at a lodge park in Lochgoilhead, Argyll, Scotland, in December 2011.

39-year-old Cowan issued a special defence of consent.

The alleged victim, a 36-year-old woman, recalled shouting, swearing and kicking at Cowan as he was on top of her.

Cowan, an ex-body builder who came second in Big Brother in 2004 to Nadia Almada, a transgender woman from Portugal, is accused of “penetrating” the witness when she was “incapable of giving or withholding consent”

The trial continues at the High Court in Glasgow.


Enjoyed this article? Add Pink News to your Twitter timeline

Get the latest LGBT headlines in your inbox with our free daily newsletter!

Top stories

Download our free app for iPhone + iPad
Out4Marriage