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Article: Rapist ex-cop's jail term cut; Conviction for phone call threat quashed
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- March 9, 2004
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A FORMER police inspector who raped two women - driving one to the
brink of suicide - today had a year cut from his jail sentence.
Adam Carruthers, 41, had been jailed for 12 years by a judge who
described him as a total disgrace to his uniform.
But at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh a charge of
making a threatening phone call to one of his victims - telling her
not to co-operate with the police investigation - was overturned.
However, the shamed ex-policeman abandoned his appeal against the
rape convictions.
After a trial in May 2001, Carruthers was found guilty of raping a
38-year-old woman several times between August 1994 and February
1995.
The trial heard she suffered so ...