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Greggory Odjig is on trial at the High Court in Stirling
A woman who says she was raped by a star of the TV series Outlander, Greggory Odjig, has told a jury she woke up to find her leggings in a suitcase after “slipping into a state of unconsciousness” at an aparthotel suite.
The Canadian actor is accused of raping the 34-year-old actress at the Premier Suites Plus serviced apartments in Glasgow’s Bath Street in May 2021.
The prosecution alleges the woman was intoxicated and asleep or unconscious and so incapable of consenting when Mr Odjig, 47, removed her lower clothing and carried out the act.
Mr Odjig – who played the role of Satehoronies in Outlander’s fourth season – denies raping the woman and assaulting her to her injury.
The woman, from Perthshire, said Mr Odjig had been a friend of hers for years.
She told the High Court in Stirling that she had gone to his suite after a day out in Edinburgh with two of her relatives and a group of actors and make-up artists who were filming in Scotland.
She said they bumped into another Canadian actor, Glenn Gould, in a supermarket near the aparthotel
She told the jury that she ended up buying two bottles of Cava, and Mr Odjig invited Mr Gould up to his two-bedroomed apartment to have a chat with them.
She said Mr Gould had three or four cans of Guinness and they had “hours of enjoyable conversation” round a table about scripts and “moving abroad”. Mr Odjig, she said, sat on a windowsill and did not engage in the conversation.
‘I felt like I’d been poisoned’
The woman told prosecutor Kath Harper KC that she later fell unconscious after drinking one-and-a-half glasses of the Spanish sparkling wine.
She said: “I poured the first glass and Gregg poured the second glass and after the second glass I slipped into a state of unconsciousness.
“He was adamant he was pouring my drink.
“I got halfway through the glass.
“My eyesight went and my head banged off the table and I was slipping into unconsciousness and didn’t know what was happening.”
She said Mr Odjig took her to the bathroom, where she “projectile vomited”.
The woman told the court: “I felt like I’d been poisoned.”
Mr Odjig helped her into a bed and she slipped into a state of unconsciousness, she added.
Throwing punches
She said she later woke up hearing shouting and screaming. Mr Odjig and Mr Gould were both in the room, having an argument, and Mr Odjig was wearing a top and boxers. She was wearing her pants but a pair of gym leggings she had been wearing were in a suitcase.
She said: “Gregg and Glenn were about 12ft away from me. There was shouting going on and it was very heated. Gregg was throwing punches at Glenn.”
She said she got between the two men, at which point Odjig hit her “right in the head”.
She said someone said she should go to the apartment of another member of the Canadian group, where police were called. She was taken to a police station, then to hospital for a CT scan, and finally to a clinic where samples were taken.
She agreed that she had told police in a statement that it could have been a bottle of cava rather than a glass and a half that she had drunk.
Mr Odjig’s counsel, Donald Findlay KC, put it to her that Mr Odjig had punched her on the head by mistake while there was something going on between the two men. He said the statement of another witness said this.
The woman replied: “I disagree with what you are saying.”
The trial, before judge Lady Poole, will continue on Tuesday with further cross-examination of the alleged victim by Mr Findlay.
