Police officer jailed for decade of rape and abuse in Scotland

Cameron Ross, a former Police Scotland officer, was jailed for 10 years at the High Court in Edinburgh after a jury found him guilty of raping two women and abusing a third across Stornoway and Inverness over a 10-year period.

Ross, 39, was convicted on 25 May 2026 after trial and sentenced by Judge Alison Stirling on Thursday, 2 July 2026. He was remanded in custody ahead of sentence and has now been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely. Ross resigned from Police Scotland in June 2026.

The first rape happened after Ross met the victim at a party between August and October 2012 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. A second rape followed in June 2014, when Ross sat on the woman and restrained her before attacking her. A third woman was abused at addresses in Inverness between 1 October 2019 and 8 June 2022, during a period that included repeated physical violence, threats to kill and a knife being brandished.

Ross was also convicted of threatening or abusive behaviour and of attempting to pervert the course of justice on 5 June 2022.

Police Scotland said Ross’s actions went against everything the force stands for and thanked the victims for reporting the crimes. It said the conviction could provide them some measure of closure, and confirmed that its Professional Standards Department will begin gross-misconduct proceedings once the criminal case is complete. Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison said the force works closely with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in cases like this.

Data from 2022 showed that more than 100 serving officers had faced sexual-offence allegations since 2014, with 20 convictions.