Overview
- The High Court in Glasgow is hearing an ongoing trial in which four women have given live evidence alleging a pattern of emotional control, isolation and physical assaults between 2004 and 2020; Robertson denies all charges.
- A complainant told the court she was raped during a holiday in the Lake District but prosecutors said that alleged incident is not part of the Scottish charges because it allegedly occurred in England.
- Witnesses described escalation from verbal abuse to physical violence, including an account of Robertson lunging at a woman and dragging her by the hair and another of him punching a fridge and chasing a partner around his home.
- Defence counsel Gary Allan KC has challenged the witnesses’ accounts, arguing some sexual contact was consensual and disputing specific assaults, while Robertson has told the court he is sober and denied the allegations.
- The prosecution has withdrawn one charge during the hearing and the trial, before Lady Drummond, will continue with further cross‑examination and evidence; the case is receiving wide attention because of Robertson’s acting profile.