SpindriftA former police officer who filmed himself raping a sleeping woman has been jailed for seven years.
Derek McNee repeatedly preyed on his victim at a house in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, in 2025.
The 43-year-old was caught after police found four incriminating videos on his mobile phone which he had captured.
McNee was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow, where he admitted to degrading and controlling behaviour towards two women – raping one victim on multiple occasions after giving her drugs which rendered her unconscious.
He pled guilty to domestic abuse charges described as a course of abusive behaviour spanning a five-year period in relation to a second woman.
He further admitted being in possession of an electronic stun gun – described as an ‘ultra-high voltage’ device – which was hidden in his car.
McNee spent seven years in the police before leaving in 2016 and becoming a dog groomer in Paisley.
Sentence
Judge David Young KC ordered McNee to be monitored for a further 18 months on his release.
He told the attacker: “As you recognise, there can be no free agreement when someone is incapable to give consent.”
The judge added that one woman – in two victim impact statements – had described her “misery” at the hands of McNee and how she remains affected.
Prosecutor Ruaraidh Ferguson explained to the court: “Four videos were recovered from his telephone which depict McNee performing sexual acts on the woman while she is clearly and obviously intoxicated.
“At various stages, she is asleep or unconscious.”
Mr Ferguson went on to give graphic detail of what McNee filmed.
This included a 35-minute video during which he states to the woman: “Do not f***ing move. Do not wriggle about. Stay still, shut up.”
At one stage, she “audibly objects” to what he is doing. McNee calls her “useless”.
In another clip, the ex-officer is wearing a mask across his eyes. The woman is described as “fully unresponsive throughout”.
During the final video found, the victim is initially awake. McNee asked what was going to happen, and she replied: “Get raped.”
McNee – who had a history of drug taking – then called her “a s**t”.
The woman stated she was “drunk” before eventually falling asleep. McNee again went on to take advantage of her condition.
He also pled guilty to hounding another woman between 2021 and 2025 in Glasgow and Paisley, Renfrewshire.
This included making insulting remarks to her. She was forced to change her phone number, but McNee found what it was and contacted her almost 30 times in two days.
Tony Graham KC, defending, told the court: “He has accepted his guilt – that is the best thing that can be said in mitigation on his behalf.”
McNee was also put on the sex offenders list and banned from contacting or approaching the victims – both for an indefinite period.
He had previously been spared jail in 2021 for terrorising a young woman, who recalled “the devil in his eyes”.
He put this victim through a frightening ordeal over a number of months at his then home in Glasgow’s west end.
This included being assaulted, threatening to kill her and tearing up her designer jacket with tweezers.
McNee was put on supervision and a curfew after he was convicted of engaging in abusive conduct following a trial at the city’s sheriff court.
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