Man ‘was like dog during magistrate abuse’

A man who has accused a NSW magistrate of sexually assaulting him when he was a teenager stopped one assault by getting on all fours and pretending to be a dog, a jury has heard.

Graeme Bryan Curran, 68, has pleaded not guilty in the NSW District Court to indecently assaulting the boy nine times between 1981 and 1983 when he was aged between 13 and 15.

In his closing address on Thursday, prosecutor Mark Hobart SC said that during an alleged assault on a three-day sailing trip the boy pretended to be a dog and ran away from the magistrate.

​“I was a scared s***less dog trying to get away from a f***ing certain disaster,” the complainant said.