Big Brother star denies sex charges

Jan 9 2013

Former Big Brother star Jason Cowan has gone on trial accused of forcing himself on a woman as she slept after a work night out.

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

The alleged victim, 36, told the High Court in Glasgow that she went to sleep in a room at his lodge after she thought she had been locked out of her own accommodation.

She had left the cabin earlier when Cowan, 39, had "not taken kindly" to her asking if he was gay because of his "polished" appearance.

The woman said she woke to find Cowan, from Glasgow, on top of her.

She said: "He was leaning over me and I started to fight him to get him off. I was screaming at him to get off me. I don't know if he was speaking, I just remember he had a really nasty face."

The woman said she had not met Cowan before the night out, where he was a guest of a colleague, and had not watched him in Big Brother.

Afterwards, she said she went to a party at the lodge where Cowan was staying and, after briefly returning to her own accommodation, went back to the lodge where Cowan was now alone.

The woman told the jury she asked if she could sleep in the twin room.

She said the next thing she remembered was waking up "with the sensation that there was someone inside me".