Former police officer guilty of sexual assault

Man repeatedly touched colleague during alcohol-fuelled night out in pub

A former police officer has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a colleague on a work night out in Dundee.

Greg Jamieson, who now works for the Conservative justice spokesman North East MSP Liam Kerr, narrowly avoided jail after he was convicted of touching the breast of a female police officer.

The married father also assaulted the woman by repeatedly touching her hair against her will.

He was suspended by the Tory Party when they became aware of the charges.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard the offences happened during an alcoholfuelled evening at the Anchor Bar in Broughty Ferry on August 24.

The 33-year-old, who resigned from the force as a result of the court case, was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and has been placed on the sex offenders register for five years.

Sheriff Alastair Brown said he would normally have considered a prison sentence but had decided against it since the effect of the court case on Jamieson “had been greater than on most people”.

However, he added that the workplace culture at Police Scotland “had to change” after hearing the victim had initially been hesitant about reporting the incident.

The court heard that the first time Jamieson touched the woman’s hair, she and her colleagues laughed.

However, she became increasingly “annoyed” and “upset” as Jamieson continued touching her.

At one point the woman physically restrained him, however, he then placed his hand on her chest.

On her return to work, she mentioned the incidents to her sergeant, but said she had not intended to make a complaint.

Giving evidence behind a screen, she said: “I found it a difficult situation.

“I was concerned about the repercussions of having to highlight the fact that my colleague, a serving police officer, had conducted himself in this way.

“It took for me to sit down and think that if it had been a member of the public to report something like this to me, I would have to investigate it. But it was then taken out of my hands.”

The court heard the sergeant spoke to senior management and it became a criminal matter.

Defence solicitor Pamela Rodgers admitted that her client, who has no previous convictions, had been a “pest”, but argued that there had been “no sexual intent” in his behaviour.

Police Scotland had not commented by the time of publication.