{"id":2473257,"date":"2026-06-24T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2473257"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:29:44","slug":"band-of-brothers-actor-iain-robertson-found-guilty-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/band-of-brothers-actor-iain-robertson-found-guilty-of-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Band of Brothers Actor Iain Robertson Found Guilty of Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Band of Brothers<\/em> actor<strong> Iain Robertson<\/strong> has been found guilty of rape following a trial in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson, 45, was convicted Tuesday, June 23, on five offenses, including rape and domestic abuse, against three women between 2004 and 2019, reported the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgmdz91pdxpo?at_medium=RSS&amp;at_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish actor appeared in HBO\u2019s acclaimed <em>Band of Brothers<\/em> and is best known for playing Stevie O\u2019Hara in the BBC soap opera <em>River City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A jury at the High Court in Glasgow heard how Robertson allegedly raped a woman whom he met on the set of<em> River City<\/em> sometime between 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/rapper-mystikal-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-rape\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/rapper-mystikal-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-rape\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Rapper Mystikal Sentenced to 20 Years After Pleading Guilty to Rape<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tRapper Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape. Local ABC affiliate WBRZ reported that Mystikal (real name Michael Tyler) appeared in court on Tuesday, June 16, to receive his sentencing. The rapper, 55, was accused of raping a woman in his Prairieville, Louisiana, home back in 2022, to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The woman testified that she did not want a romantic relationship with the actor but that they did become intimate at one point. She later told Robertson that she wanted to return to a platonic relationship, per the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a long back and forth. Iain was convinced I was in denial about having feelings for him and in denial about what I wanted,\u201d she said. \u201cI do not think he believed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman added that she felt her \u201cboundaries were being ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she was sexually assaulted after staying at Robertson\u2019s home in Glasgow. The woman claimed she planned to sleep on the sofa, but that the actor said she could join him in his bed and \u201cnothing would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman said that Robertson then \u201chad sex\u201d with her. \u201cI was lying down, I was very limp and he went on top of me,\u201d she described the incident, which she said was nonconsensual.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman testified that the actor \u201clunged\u201d at her during an argument in 2014, reported the BBC. She said, \u201cI thought he was going to hit me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robertson was convicted of assault in connection with the second woman but cleared a second charge.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is also an actor, said Robertson called her and left voicemails in an \u201cobsessive\u201d manner and sent snack boxes to theaters at which she was performing.<\/p>\n<p>Giving evidence earlier in the trial, Robertson <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gy7z5m9yeo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he was \u201cno angel\u201d but denied all of the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am aware to know if the person is not as present as I am in what we are doing,\u201d he said of the rape allegation. \u201cI am sensitive enough to be aware there are non-verbal ways to communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt would be something I would not participate in at all,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson is due to be sentenced on July 23.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rainn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Sexual Assault Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Band of Brothers actor Iain Robertson has been found guilty of rape following a trial in Scotland. Robertson, 45, was convicted Tuesday, June 23, on five offenses, including rape and domestic abuse, against three women between 2004 and 2019, reported the BBC. The Scottish actor appeared in HBO\u2019s acclaimed Band of Brothers and is best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2473258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,311360],"class_list":["post-2473257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-true-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Band-of-Brothers-Actor-Iain-Robertson-Found-Guilty-of-Rape.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473259,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473257\/revisions\/2473259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}