The 45-year-old, played Stevie O'Hara in the BBC soap, was convicted of five offences against the women between 2004 and 2019.

Former River City actor Iain Robertson has been jailed for nine years for raping a woman and assaulting two others. The 45-year-old, who played Stevie O'Hara in the BBC soap, was convicted of five offences, including domestic abuse, against the women between 2004 and 2019. During his trial at the High Court in Glasgow, Robertson was referred to by witnesses as "violent" and "controlling". Lady Drummond told Robertson, who appeared via video link from Barlinnie prison, that his behaviour had a "long lasting and life-changing" impact on his victims. The judge said they now suffered from anxiety, fear and flashbacks and had problems with trust and a sense of safety. She said: "The domestic abuse that you subjected these women to included acting in a controlling and pressurising manner, making abusive and offensive comments, shouting, swearing and threatening violence, persistently messaging and monitoring the women's movements, damaging property and pouring wine over the head of one woman. "It formed part of a pattern of conduct carried out by you, to exert power and control over these women and to make them fearful and distressed." The trial heard how Robertson, of Carbeth in Stirlingshire, raped a woman on one occasion between 2018 and 2019 as well as a separate sex assault.