{"id":706948,"date":"2026-07-23T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:20:07","slug":"former-river-city-actor-iain-robertson-jailed-for-nine-years-for-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706948\/","title":{"rendered":"Former River City actor Iain Robertson jailed for nine years for rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trial heard how Robertson, of Carbeth in Stirlingshire, raped a woman on one occasion between 2018 and 2019 as well as a separate sex assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair came to know each other from working together on River City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The woman said she did not want anything sexual to happen, but believed Robertson did. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The relationship became intimate, but the woman later told Robertson she wanted their relationship to go back to being platonic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said one evening she was at his home in Glasgow&#8217;s Tradeston and planned to sleep on the sofa, but Robertson allegedly told her she could join him in bed as &#8220;nothing would happen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the witness said that the actor instead &#8220;had sex&#8221; with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She did not say anything to Robertson at the time, but said she did not participate in what happened and she did not want it to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also described an earlier incident when Robertson carried out a sex act on her and she &#8220;just waited for it to be over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also found guilty of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour against her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trial heard how Robertson, of Carbeth in Stirlingshire, raped a woman on one occasion between 2018 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706948","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\/706948","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=706948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}