Gavin Donaldson has been handed a 14 month prison sentence for perverting the course of justice when he begged a vulnerable teen he had a sexual relationship with to delete messages between them.
A police officer has been jailed after having had a sexual relationship with a teen before urging her to destroy evidence of their affair.
They later began a “consensual sexual relationship” which came to the attention of Police Scotland’s anti-corruption unit . Sheriff Douglas Keir said while sentencing Donaldson: "The offence committed was a calculated and deliberate attempt by a serving police officer to pervert the course of a police investigation into your behaviour. The offence is aggravated by the abuse of the trust placed in you by the vulnerable young woman involved.
The court previously heard that he noted her statement after she reported a crime, but she then revealed to him she’d been raped. He passed this complaint on to colleagues Top news stories today The court was told the ACU became aware of an alleged relationship between a “police officer and a victim of crime”.Donaldson was placed on restricted duties on November 20 2020, but not told why.
"All of this was done while you were a serving police officer which is a significant aggravating factor. The general public and society as a whole have the right to expect the highest standards of those who serve in the police force. By your deliberate actions, you have fallen far short of those standards and damaged the trust that is placed in the police."
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