A serving police officer has admitted a string of sexual assaults on five women at bars and nightclubs in Aberdeen and Dundee.
Sergeant Ross Campbell, 44, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted a total of five charges that he touched and groped women between September 2019 and February 2020.
He is currently suspended by Police Scotland pending the outcome of the case.
It is also understood a number of his victims are police officers.
One charge states that on September 15 2019 Campbell sexually assaulted one woman at Club Tropicana nightclub in Aberdeen by seizing her by the body and pulling her toward him where he then struck her on the buttocks.
On December 5 2019, Campbell has admitted that on various occasions at Siberia nightclub in Aberdeen he embraced a woman and touched her body, uttered sexual remarks and handled and seized her buttocks.
He has also admitted to sexually assaulting a third woman at Siberia on the same night by placing his hand inside her clothing, touching her body and forcing his hand inside her lower clothing.
Campbell also pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a fourth woman while at the Counting House pub in Dundee and on a journey between Dundee and Aberdeen by approaching her from behind and grabbing her buttocks.
The police sergeant admitted a final charge of sexually assaulting a fifth woman at Soul Bar and Paramount Bar in Aberdeen by touching her body and private parts through her clothing.
Campbell, who was initially facing nine charges of sexual assault against a total of seven women, pleaded not guilty to four charges, which was accepted by the Crown.
Sheriff Graham Buchanan placed Campbell, of Cove Close, Cove, Aberdeen, on the sex offenders register.
The case is set to call again later this afternoon for the crown to provide more information about the offences.
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