{"id":669854,"date":"2026-07-02T13:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669854\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:31:19","slug":"police-officer-who-raped-two-women-and-abused-a-third-jailed-for-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669854\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer who raped two women and abused a third jailed for 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the trial, the court heard how Ross raped the first woman after they met at a party on Lewis between August and October 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The woman told the court how Ross &#8220;pinned her down to a bed&#8221; before carrying out the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the incident had left her traumatised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second woman told the trial Ross had sat on her and restrained her before raping her in June 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to subject a third woman to a course of abusive behaviour between October 2019 and June 2022 in Inverness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In evidence, the court was told Ross threatened to kill the woman, repeatedly pushed and pulled her, threw her to the ground and brandished a knife at her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ross was also convicted of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner on 5 June 2022 at an address in Inverness, where he shouted, swore and acted aggressively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He later attempted to pervert the course of justice on that date by trying to speak to a woman who was providing a witness statement to an officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the trial, the court heard how Ross raped the first woman after they met at a party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-669854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}