Former Police Scotland Officer Sentenced to 10 Years for Rapes and Abuse of Three Women

A former Police Scotland officer was sentenced to 10 years in custody for raping two women and subjecting a third to prolonged abuse. Cameron Ross, 39, carried out the attacks in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in 2012 and 2014, then abused another woman in Inverness between 2019 and 2022.

Judge Alison Stirling imposed the term after a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh found him guilty in May 2026.

Ross raped the first woman after meeting her at a party on Lewis between August and October 2012, pinning her down on a bed, court evidence showed. He raped the second woman in June 2014 by sitting on her and restraining her. He threatened to kill the third woman, repeatedly pushed and pulled her, threw her to the ground and brandished a knife at her between October 2019 and June 2022.

Ross was also convicted of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner on 5 June 2022 at an address in Inverness, where he shouted, swore and acted aggressively, and of attempting to pervert the course of justice by trying to speak to a woman giving a witness statement.

He was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely. Ross was suspended from Police Scotland in January 2024 after the allegations emerged and resigned last month.

Ch Supt Helen Harrison, head of professional standards, said the force suspended him immediately when the report was received in June 2022 and would have dismissed him for gross misconduct had he remained. Faye Cook of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said Ross carried out deliberate and repeated acts of abuse against women over a decade while in a position of trust as a police officer.