Teenager 'simulated sex with head'

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The 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also told the High Court in Edinburgh that Sonny Devlin, 17, was "chucking the head around".

Devlin, from Edinburgh, and another 15-year-old boy, who also cannot be identified, both deny "violation of a sepulchre".

It is alleged that on June 30, 2003, they forced open the entrance to the Mackenzie Mausoleum in the city's Greyfriars Cemetery.

They are accused of pulling out a body from a coffin in the lower level tomb and cutting off the head with a knife.

They are then alleged to have played with the head in the cemetery, simulated a sex act with it and then discarded it.

The female witness told the court she and a group of friends, including the two accused, had gathered in the city's Bristo Square before moving on to the cemetery.

Some of the group had been drinking alcohol, she said.

The witness, who was going out with the younger of the accused at the time and is still dating him, told the court that a member of a group of "goths" had said to her group, "Do you want to go and get the head of George Mackenzie?"

She said that Sonny agreed and he and the other accused went up the hill towards the mausoleum. Sonny was carrying a knife and latex gloves, she said.

The witness said: "Twenty minutes to half an hour later they were running down the hill and Sonny had a blanket in his hand all bundled up. It was yellow and dirty.

"He just dropped it and the head rolled out.

The witness broke down into tears as she was giving evidence.

Devlin later bragged about what he had done when the group left the graveyard and returned to Bristo Square, the witness claimed.

A second witness today, Daniel Leaver, 18, told the court that he saw both Devlin and his co-accused throwing the head about.

He said: "I was nearly sick."

The trial is believed to be the first of its kind for more than 100 years.
George "Bloody" Mackenzie, after whom the mausoleum was named, was King's Advocate for Charles II and was laid to rest in 1691.

The identity of the body in question is not known.

The trial continues.