{"id":706890,"date":"2026-07-23T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706890\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:35:09","slug":"river-city-actor-iain-robertson-convicted-of-rape-and-sexual-assault-to-be-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706890\/","title":{"rendered":"River City actor Iain Robertson convicted of rape and sexual assault to be sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>River City actor Iain Robertson is to be sentenced after being found guilty of raping a woman and assaulting two others.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson, 45, was convicted of five charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow in June.<\/p>\n<p>He had denied the accusations, which spanned between 2004 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a lengthy jail sentence as he returns to the dock at the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson, who previously won a Bafta, was removed from the BBC Scotland soap when the crimes came to light.<\/p>\n<p>He was remanded in custody and as sentencing was adjourned for background reports after being found guilty last month.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"River City actor Iain Robertson is to be sentenced after being found guilty of raping a woman and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706890","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=706890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}