Actor Iain Robertson has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of raping one woman and assaulting others. The former River City star was found guilty last month of a total of five offences against three women between 2004 and 2019. He raped one of the women some time between 2018 and 2019, and also sexually assaulted her on a separate occasion.

Prosecutors said Robertson subjected victims to violence, threats and coercive and controlling behaviour over a number of years. The court heard he poured a bottle of wine over one woman's head, manipulated victims psychologically, falsely told the friends of one woman that she was mentally unstable, let himself into her home without her knowledge or consent, sent unwanted gifts and threatened to self-harm.