Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli to Stand Trial on Rape and Sex Offence Charges
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Comedian and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli will stand trial in Glasgow, facing 20 charges including five counts of rape against one woman and other sex offences involving four women, spanning from January 2006 to June 2021.
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Comedian and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli is to stand trial accused of repeatedly raping a woman as well as sex offences against four others.
Kohli - who appeared on celebrity versions of Big Brother and Masterchef - denied a total of 20 charges via his legal team during a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
The accusations, spanning from January 2006 and June 2021, include five separate rape charges involving one of the women.
Kohli, 57, from Kelvinside in Glasgow, is a former reporter on BBC's The One Show and panellist on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5.
The first offence is alleged to have happened between 15 June and 31 July 2020 at a house near Glasgow.
Kohli is accused of raping the same woman on "various occasions" at the same property, as well as two others in the city's east end from the June date up until 1 February 2021.
He is said to have struck again twice within two days in December 2020.
The final rape is said to have happened at one of the east end addresses on 20 June 2021 when the woman was "intoxicated, drifting in and out of consciousness and incapable of consenting" at the time.
Kohli separately faces four sexual assault charges involving the same female.
These include a claim he got her to wear a blindfold during one incident and spat on her during another.
Kohli is further accused of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour with the woman over a two-year period.
This includes accusations he asked for intimate images of her, wanted to know about previous relationships, tracked her movements and hounded her with calls and texts.
It is also alleged he "coerced" the woman into giving him money.
The court papers further state that he locked her out of his house, turned up uninvited at her home and threw out food he made for her.
Kohli is also charged with communicating indecently with the woman and sending her photos of semi-naked females.
The initial charges on the indictment are that Kohli indecently assaulted another woman at the BBC Scotland studios in Glasgow as well as in the Radisson Hotel in the city's Argyle Street.
