Sporran Maker To Porn Maker

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SPORRAN-MAKER Marcus Eagleton's teenage girlfriend told last night of their steamy home movies.

Kayleigh Fraser, 19, spoke out after married Eagleton - who charges his VIP customers up to £1000 for a handmade sporran - denied a charge of assaulting her.

It's claimed he attacked her when she ended their affair after realising he had lied about splitting up from his wife.

Eagleton, 34, pleaded not guilty by letter yesterday when the case was called at Perth Sheriff Court.

Last night, Kayleigh said she originally believed Eagleton, whose clients include Prince Charles, Billy Connolly and Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson, when he told her he had split from his wife Joanne, 30.

She began a steamy relationship with him but was horrified to discover he had filmed them having sex.

Then she discovered he was still living with Joanne at their home in Bankfoot, Perthshire.

Kayleigh, who works in the bar and restaurant of her father's hotel in Bankfoot, said: "I have had to change my mobile number recently because he kept trying to contact me even after everything that has happened.

"I don't want anything more to do with him. I have never met anyone like Marcus and I hope I never will again.

"When we first met in my dad's hotel, he seemed like a great bloke. He told me that he had split up from his wife a while before and we started seeing each other.

"We are both into rock climbing and he would take me away for weekends and we would check into hotels for the night.

"It became a really passionate relationship and was great for a while but it wasn't long before I saw another side to Marcus.

"He kept insisting that things were over with his wife but I soon suspected it wasn't the case because we never went back to his house.

"And then he started sending me disgusting mobile phone video footage of himself self-abusing and kept asking me to send him videos of myself but I wasn't interested in doing that.

"A couple of months after we met, he booked us into a holiday lodge at Butterstone, near Dunkeld.

"I didn't realise he had linked a webcam up to his computer and was filming us having sex.

"When I discovered what had been happening, I was horrified but I wiped the footage off his computer and kept it on a disk myself.

"After that, he wanted to film us a few times and I just let him. It was a bit weird but kind of interesting in a way."

During their four-month affair, Eagleton whisked Kayleigh off on a climbing holiday in France.

After several climbing trips near Dundee he took her to the city's lap-dancing club Private Eyes before they booked into a hotel for sex sessions.

The relationship started in December last year but Kayleigh said she ended the affair in March after discovering that Eagleton was still living with Joanne.

She added: "I was sick of his lies and I told him it was over in a bar. He begged me to come to a local hotel room with him so we could talk about it.

"Stupidly, I went and there was a confrontation when we got there. I've been advised I can't go into detail for legal reasons."

Kayleigh recently started taking pole-dancing classes at Tiger Tiger in Glasgow, though she has no plans to become a professional performer. She plans to go to university next year to study law or psychology after achieving top marks in her Highers at school two years ago.

She added: "I can't believe I was so stupid as to believe Marcus's lies and get together with him in the first place.

"I would never have done it had I known what the situation really was with his wife and I just feel sorry for her now.

"She even came round to my house and confronted me after finding out that something was going on a couple of weeks after Marcus was arrested.

"She didn't do it in a threatening way at all. She just wanted to know what was going on and was clearly devastated.

"It was obvious Marcus had been lying to her the whole time.

"He told me he had split from his wife and that he didn't want to take me back to the house they had lived in together.

"Little did I know that he really didn't want to take me back there because he was still living with his wife."

Eagleton and his mother Janet run Scottish Sporrans in Perth.

They have contracts to supply the Black Watch and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Eagleton made the sporran that Samuel L Jackson wore in the movie The 51st State.

And Janet became the first and only sporran-maker ever to be awarded an MBE from the Queen for her services to the industry in 2001.

In April, Eagleton outraged animal rights activists by starting to make £1000 sporrans out of stuffed grouse.

He denies two charges relating to an alleged incident at the Travelodge in Broxden, Perth, on March 25 this year.

The first states he conducted himself in a disorderly manner, threatened to commit suicide and committed a breach of the peace.

The second alleges he "did assault Kayleigh Fraser, seize her by the wrist, push her and strike her on the face, to her injury".

Eagleton will go on trial at Perth Sheriff Court at a later date.

He said last night: "I can't make any comment before I speak to my lawyer."

Exclusive by John Ferguson|23 June 2007