Police officer John Williamson has been convicted of raping a teenage girl and a woman in Shetland, after a jury found him guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh.
The 32-year-old, of Burra, was found to have engaged in sexual activity with a girl when she was under the age of 16 in 2014, and to have raped her between 2014 and 2015. He was also found guilty of raping a second woman in 2020 and again in 2022, when she was intoxicated and unable to consent.
Williamson had denied all the offences. He told the court the earliest time he could remember having sexual intercourse with the teenage girl was the day after her 16th birthday, and described allegations that the encounters happened when she was 15 as "untrue". The pair had made contact through Snapchat when he was a student and himself a teenager.
He also denied sexual activity with the adult woman outside a community hall during an event in 2022, telling the trial there was no further sexual activity with her later on.
Williamson was initially charged with nine offences, but five were dropped by the Crown before the closing speeches.
He cried in the dock and was handcuffed and remanded in custody after the verdict, saying "I love you" to his partner as he was led away. Judge John Morris KC described the trial as an "anxious and distressing" one. Sentencing is scheduled for 8 December.