Shetland Police Scotland officer raped woman and teenage girl

A police officer has been found guilty of raping a woman and a teenage girl in Shetland.

Carmichael John Williamson, known as John, faced four charges said to have been committed between 2014 and 2022 at locations in the islands.

The 32-year-old was accused of raping an adult woman on two occasions in 2020 and 2022 and of raping a teenage girl on an occasion between April 2014 and October 2015 and of having underage sex with her in 2014.

Williamson, of Burra, in Shetland, has denied the charges.

On Thursday at the High Court in Edinburgh, he was found guilty of three counts of rape and one count of sex with an underage girl.

He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on December 8.

The judge placed him on the sex offenders register.

Williamson was in tears as he was placed in handcuffs and mouthed “I love you” to his family as he was taken away.

The High Court in Edinburgh previously heard Williamson is a police constable with more than ten years service and is currently suspended.

Prosecutor David Dickson KC said in his closing address to jurors that the two women were credible and reliable witnesses.

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