RIVER City actor Iain Robertson is behind bars after being convicted of raping a woman and assaulting two others.
Robertson was today found guilty of a total of five charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
The shamed 45-year-old — a former Bafta winner kicked off the BBC Scotland soap when the crimes came to light — had denied the accusations which spanned between 2004 and 2020.
The Govan-born star is now facing a lengthy jail-term when he returns to the dock next month in Edinburgh.
He had been on bail, but showed no emotion as he was remanded in custody as sentencing was adjourned for background reports.
The rape victim's pre-recorded testimony was played during the trial.
Jurors concluded Robertson pounced on a single occasion between 2018 and 2019 as well as carrying out a separate sex assault on her.
The pair had got to know each other from working together on River City.
The 36 year-old woman said she did not want anything sexual to happen, but believed Robertson, of Carbeth, Stirlingshire, did.
It did, however, later become more intimate between them.
But, the woman recalled later insisting to Robertson she wanted their relationship to go back to being more platonic.
Asked by prosecutor John Keenan KC how Robertson reacted, she said he "agreed".
But, the witness added: "It was a long back and forth. Iain was convinced I was in denial about having feelings for him and in denial about what I wanted.
"I do not think he believed me."
The woman stated she felt her "boundaries were being ignored".
She was at his then home in Glasgow's Tradeston at the time — she planned to sleep on the sofa, but Robertson allegedly told her she could join him in bed as "nothing would happen".
However, the witness told Mr Keenan the actor instead allegedly "had sex" with her.
She claimed: "I was lying down, I was very limp and he went on top of me."
The woman said Robertson was naked at the time.
Mr Keenan said: "Able to say how he came to be on top of you?"
She replied: "No, it was out of the blue."
The woman did not say anything to Robertson at that point.
Mr Keenan said: "When this was happening, were you participating in what was going on?"
The witness said: "No."
The advocate depute asked: "Did you want it to happen?"
She again said she did not.
Mr Keenan went on: "How would he have known?"
The woman said: "From the many conversations and my unresponsiveness."
She told the hearing how she felt "awful" after what allegedly occurred.
The woman went on to describe another incident at her flat in Glasgow's West End.
She claimed Robertson had been upset about the "sexual aspect ending" and kicked over a table, breaking a vase.
The woman said he suggested them going to see a relationship counsellor and that she "just agreed" as she did not want "the violence to escalate".
The court heard Robertson later went into the woman's bed. She also got in to go to sleep.
She told how the actor went on to allegedly pull her on top of him before again having sex with her.
The woman stated she not want this to happen and was left feeling "very numb".
The witness also spoke of an earlier incident when Robertson carried out an sex act on her and she "just waited for it to be over.
Robertson had lodged a special defence that anything with this woman was consensual.
Prosecutors took the step of leading evidence of another sexual incident involving a second woman to corroborate the rape charge.
Robertson was said to have forced himself on the now 48 year-old during a get together with others in the Lake District in September 2007.
Jurors did not have to deliver a verdict on this accusation.
But, this woman recalled how Robertson struck after he had gone into a mood because she had been playing a “silly” game with friends.
He had sex with her without her consent in a bedroom.
Robertson was also found guilty of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour with the rape victim.
He was further convicted of assaulting the woman from the Lake District incident – which included pouring wine over her and her university course work.
Robertson was violent with a third female, who was a fellow actor at the time.
The 40 year-old recalled an incident in 2014 the day before she due to go to a photoshoot for acting work.
Describing an argument, she told how Robertson “lunged” at her adding: “Something happened where I was cowering because I thought he was going to hit me.
“He said: ‘If you think I am going to f***ing hit you, I will’.
"I had my hands and arms over my head. I do not remember if he struck me or not."
After she later broke up with Roberston, she described how he hounded her with an “obsessive” amount of calls and voicemails.
He also bizarrely sent Graze snack boxes to theatres she was performing at after checking where she was.
Robertson was convicted of one assault charge involving this woman and cleared of another.
He was further guilty of threatening and abusive behaviour towards her.
Robertson was finally found not guilty of engaging in abusive behaviour with a fourth woman.
He gave evidence during his trial and accepted he was “no angel”, but insisted he was innocent of the crimes.
However, in his speech to jurors, advocate depute Mr Keenan said his testimony was “wholly incredible and unreliable”.
After the verdicts, it emerged Robertson had one minor assault conviction as well as road traffic offences. He had never been in jail before.
He had first appeared in court for these latest allegations in February 2024 after a police probe.
Gary Allan KC, defending, said Robertson had been “frozen out by the acting profession” since the accusations emerged.
He had asked for Robertson not to be locked up pending sentencing.
But, Lady Drummond stated: “I have considered the application for bail, but, Mr Robertson, your situation has now changed.
“You have been convicted of a number of offences and you will be remanded meantime.”
Robertson was also put on the sex offenders list.
