River City actor Gary Robertson found guilty of rape and domestic abuse

A Glasgow jury convicted former River City actor Iain Robertson of rape and domestic abuse after hearing allegations from four women that stretched from 2004 to 2020. Lady Drummond deferred sentencing until 23 July 2026, leaving the 45-year-old to await punishment after a trial that turned on repeated claims of control, threats and assault.

Robertson was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow of five offences. Prosecutors said one earlier charge connected to one of the women had been withdrawn, while the remaining counts covered rape and abuse across a 16-year period. Witnesses described Robertson as “violent” and “controlling”, and the Crown argued the jury had heard evidence of a recurring pattern of behaviour that was allegedly “controlling, humiliating and demeaning”.

One of the women was fellow actor Amiera Darwish, who told the court Robertson was “emotionally controlling and manipulative” before the relationship became violent. She said he dragged her by the hair during an assault in Glasgow and left her “cowering” in fear, while another woman described him as initially charming before his conduct escalated into threats and physical violence. Those accounts placed coercive control at the center of the case, not as background but as the mechanism through which the abuse unfolded.

Robertson denied the charges and told jurors he was “no angel”, but insisted he had not committed the crimes. Best known for playing Stevie O’Hara in River City, he also won a BAFTA for Small Faces as a teenager, a career that made the allegations against him impossible to separate from wider scrutiny of how abuse by prominent men is pursued in court and understood by the public. The verdict leaves the focus on the pattern the jury accepted and the sentencing still to come.