FORMER COP IS CONVICTED OF SEX ASSAULT
A FORMER policeman was this month put on the sex offenders register after being found guilty of groping a female colleague.
Herbert Scott Gallop retired after the allegations against him began to be investigated.
The 53-year-old, who was probed as part of an inquiry into claims of bullying and misogyny at a police station in Moray, was found guilty in October of touching the woman’s bottom, despite her telling him not to.
At Elgin Sheriff Court, he was also given a one-year community payback order for the offence, which dated back to 2017.
Gallop and the female officer were on sick leave from the force when they struck up a friendship. When he started to touch her, she warned him off.
After he called her ‘grumpy’, she texted back: ‘Well not touching bum and waist today and I might not be a grumpy bear.’
Finding Gallop guilty of one amended charge of sexual assault and not guilty to a second, Sheriff Robert McDonald said he didn’t find his evidence ‘credible’.