Scots cop jailed for 10 years for raping two women and terrorising third
- Rory Cassidy
- Jul 2
- 2 min read
A former Police Scotland officer has been jailed for 10 years for raping two women and abusing a third.
Cameron Ross engaged in a pattern of sexual and physical abuse against women over a 10-year period.
He abused his victims in Inverness and the Isle of Lewis between 2012 and 2022, and was caged at the High Court in Edinburgh today, Thursday, July 2, 2026.
The disgraced cop, who resigned from the force last month, was also placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
The 39-year-old had been found guilty of rape, domestic abuse, attempting to pervert the course of justice and threatening or abusive behaviour.
Speaking after he was sentenced, Faye Cook, Procurator Fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), said: "Cameron Ross carried out deliberate and repeated acts of abuse against women over the course of a decade. This was sustained offending, which caused significant harm.
"As a police officer, he was in a position of trust. Instead of upholding the law, he chose to break it in a serious and persistent way.
"I would urge anyone affected by similar offending to come forward and report it.
"The Crown is committed to prosecuting those responsible for sexual and domestic abuse, regardless of who they are."
Chief Superintendent Helen Harrison, Head of Professional Standards, said: "Cameron Ross has been convicted for repeatedly abusing and sexually abusing women.
" We've worked closely with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to achieve this outcome.
"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.
"Police Scotland continues to work with survivors’ groups to improve our response to violence against women and girls to embed an approach which places survivors at the heart of our investigation with a trauma-informed approach and we remain committed to further improvement.
"Equally, over a period of years, and advanced by Lady Elish Angiolini's review in 2020, there has been a Scotland wide focus on police ethics, conduct and scrutiny.
"We continue to fully engage with those developments to strengthen our safeguarding of policing's integrity and we're working to embed new legislation to continue that improvement.
"We fully accept the onus is on policing to build confidence with members of the public, victims and witnesses to ensure they can report wrongdoing by police officers and staff, and can be confident that robust action will be taken.
“Police Scotland is committed to reviewing its processes, policies, and procedures, which continue to evolve and are shaped by feedback. The ability to handle police misconduct matters in a more robust, timely and transparent way will now also be greatly strengthened by the Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Act 2025.”
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