A former police officer who drugged and raped a woman and subjected another woman to years of abuse has been jailed for seven years.

Derek McNee, 43, was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday 2 November by Judge David Young KC. As well as the seven-year custodial term, the judge ordered McNee to be monitored for a further 18 months after his release. He was also placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and made subject to non-harassment orders banning him from contacting or approaching either victim.

McNee, who served as a police officer for seven years before leaving Police Scotland in 2016, later ran a dog grooming business in Paisley, Renfrewshire. He pleaded guilty to the charges at the High Court in Glasgow on 2 September, and returned to the same court for sentencing two months later.

The court heard that McNee repeatedly attacked one woman at a house in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, during 2025, after giving her drugs that left her unconscious. Police found four videos on his mobile phone which he had recorded himself, showing him carrying out sexual acts on the woman while she was clearly intoxicated, asleep or unconscious. Prosecutor Ruaraidh Ferguson told the court that in one 35-minute recording McNee could be heard telling the woman to stay still, while she audibly objected at one point.

Sentencing him, Judge Young told McNee that there could be no free agreement when someone was incapable of giving consent. The court was told the woman had described, in two victim impact statements, the misery she suffered at his hands and how she remains affected by what happened.

McNee also admitted subjecting a second woman to a course of abusive behaviour between 2021 and 2025 in Glasgow and Paisley. The court heard he made insulting remarks to her, forced her to change her phone number, then tracked down the new number and contacted her almost 30 times in two days. He further admitted possessing an electronic stun gun, described as an ultra-high voltage device, which was found hidden in his car during a search in August 2025. He was arrested over the sex attacks in December 2025.

It was not the first time McNee had faced a court over his treatment of a woman. In 2021 he was spared jail after terrorising a young woman over a number of months at his then home in Glasgow's West End, an ordeal that included assault, threats to kill and tearing up her designer jacket with tweezers. He was put on supervision and given a curfew after being convicted of abusive conduct at the city's sheriff court.

Following the sentencing, Procurator Fiscal Faye Cook of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said McNee had subjected two women to serious abuse and exploitation. She said he used drugs to facilitate the rape of one woman, rendering her incapable of consenting, and subjected the other to controlling, abusive and degrading behaviour. She added that the offences had a profound impact on both victims, who should have been safe in his company, and that their courage in reporting what happened had enabled prosecutors to seek justice.

Detective Inspector Mairi MacDonald of Police Scotland said the force did not tolerate violence or sexual abuse in any form. The case is a reminder that anyone affected by sexual violence can report it to police, or seek confidential support from Rape Crisis Scotland on 08088 01 03 02.