• 5 years ago
• Posted in:Child Sexual Abuse, Rape / Sexual Assault, Sexual Offences
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• Author: Thomas Gradgrind
• Tags: Aged 30-39, Aged 40-49, Autogynephilia, Belfast, Child victim, Convicted 1999, Crossdressing while offending, Denigrated victim, Employment terminated, Female victim, Fetish, Northern Ireland, Offended 1980s, Offended 1990s, Police officer, PSNI, Scouts/Guides, Transvestite

Eric Millar, a violent male transvestite, was convicted in 1999 of multiple rapes of a young girl between 1987 and 1994. He was jailed for 10 years. At the time Millar was a constable, aged in his 30s and 40s, in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Lisnasharragh, Belfast.

Millar first attacked the girl when she was a 14-year-old member of a scout pack where he was a leader and admitted crossdressing in black stockings, suspenders and high heels “for sexual pleasure”. Millar’s victim reported him after she became a police officer herself.

At the trial, Lord Justice McDermott admonished Millar for instructing his lawyers to put details of the victim’s private life in the public domain: “Every piece of ‘dirt’ that he could find was put to her. He sought to have her shamed and disgraced,” he said. The judge added that the RUC officer and scoutmaster had taken advantage of his position of trust and of the 15-year-old girl’s fear of him that had “damaged her for life”.

Millar’s employer, TeleTech, suspended him in 2008 “pending a full review of the situation” when his conviction was brought to their attention by an article in the Belfast Telegraph.

Other trans-identified male offenders in the police are collected under this tag.

Media reports

Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/suspender-ed-28452511.html archive

UK Database https://uk-database.org/2012/12/23/eric-millar-belfast/ archive

Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ruc-man-is-accused-of-rape-1.191948 archive