Police Scotland officer who raped two women and abused third jailed

A serving police officer who raped two women and subjected a third female to prolonged abuse has been jailed.

Cameron Ross, 39, was convicted on May 25 following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

He was found guilty of offences including rape, domestic abuse, attempting to pervert the course of justice and threatening or abusive behaviour.

On Thursday, July 2, Ross was sentenced to ten years in custody. He has been placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

‘I didn’t say anything, I froze’

Cameron Ross, 39, was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh. Police Scotland

Ross attacked his first two victims at different locations in the Stornoway area of the Isle of Lewis.

A woman assaulted by him in 2012, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the attack came after she met him at a party.

She told the High Court in Edinburgh how the policeman forced her to engage in sex with him.

“I didn’t say anything. I froze,” she said.

She told jurors that Ross had pinned her down to bed and tried to force her to have sex with him.

She said: “I couldn’t move at all. He moved his legs into a position where I was pinned down.

“His full weight was on me. I could hear my heart beating. I lost feeling.”

She told the court the attack had left her traumatised.

The court heard how Ross attacked a second woman on the island in June 2014.

The police officer went on to subject a third woman to a course of abusive behaviour between October 2019 and June 2022 at addresses in Inverness.

During the abuse, he brandished a knife at her.

He shouted, swore and threatened to kill the victim, punched her on the face, sat on top of her and forced fingers into her mouth, gripped her throat and pressed down on the back of her neck, restricting her breathing.

Ross also attempted to pervert the course of justice by repeatedly trying to speak to a woman who was providing a witness statement to a police officer.

Ross had denied the charges during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh but was convicted of all of the offences by a jury.

Ross has no previous convictions.

Judge Alison Stirling told jurors that it had been “a difficult and anxious case” and said a counselling service was available, if needed.

Police Scotland had previously said it would begin gross misconduct proceedings after the criminal case had finished. But Ross resigned from the force in June 2026.

Chief superintendent Helen Harrison said: “Ross was a serving officer at the time of these offences and when the report was received in June 2022, we immediately suspended him.

“He has since resigned from the service. If he had remained, we would have progressed gross misconduct proceedings and he would have been dismissed as his actions and behaviour will not be tolerated in Police Scotland.

“I want to thank those who came forward and recognise how difficult that can be when the perpetrator is a police officer.”