Claims extracted
26
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
2 of 26 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
2
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
A rapist police sergeant who preyed on two women has been jailed for 12 years.
asserted
who → prey → years
Campbell Petrie, 50, was today locked up after being found guilty of nine charges of physical and sexual abuse between 2006 and 2022.
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Petrie → lock → 2006
‘One of his victims was a colleague whom he raped while she was asleep.’
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she → rap → whom
He showed no emotion as he was handcuffed and led from the dock after being handed an extended sentence at the High Court in Glasgow.
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he → show → Glasgow
Petrie is one of four serving or former Police Scotland officers who have been exposed as rapists over the past few months.
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who → serve → months
He was first arrested in 2009 after allegations were made against him.
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allegations → arrest → him
He was held in a police cell for five hours before eventually being released.
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He → hold → hours
Petrie remained in the force, during which time he was promoted, and was arrested again in December 2023.
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he → remain → December
He was then charged and suspended from duty.
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He → charge → duty
In December 2025 he retired from Police Scotland, and has recently been working in a friend’s sports shop.
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he → retire → shop
Judge Alistair Watson told him: ‘You have been convicted by the jury of serious and repeated physical and sexual abuse of two women.
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You → tell → women
‘The gravity of this sustained course of criminal conduct cannot be overstated, and it is my duty to impose a sentence which reflects its seriousness and its persistence.’
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which → overstate → seriousness
The court heard his victims gave ‘eloquent and moving descriptions’ of Petrie’s crimes, and the judge told him: ‘They each describe the trauma they have suffered at your hands, and both give detail of the deep and enduring psychological harm which still affects them today.
‘
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which → hear → them
It was obvious at trial that each still suffers the enduring pain of what has occurred.’
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what → suffer → pain
He said they had shown ‘remarkable courage’ during court proceedings, and added: ‘I hope that the resolution of these proceedings today may close a chapter in their lives and allow each of them to move on in the process of the recovery.’
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each → say → recovery
Edith Forrest KC, mitigating, told the court that her client was still in a supportive relationship, and that he continued to profess his innocence.
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he → mitigate → innocence
Petrie was handed a 15-year extended sentence
But
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Petrie → hand → sentence
Petrie, who appeared at the 20-minute sentencing wearing a pink shirt and grey suit, was told by the judge his continued denials of his crimes and the suggestion he was never aware his victims felt he had assaulted them were ‘bizarre’ and ‘disappointing’.
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he → appear → them
Petrie was handed a 15-year extended sentence, of which the first 12 will be served behind bars followed by three years of supervision.
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12 → hand → supervision
His name was added to the sex offenders’ register for life.
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name → add → life
He has also been told he cannot communicate either directly or indirectly with his victims, or be within 100 meters of them.
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he → tell → them
Petrie is the latest officer to be uncovered as a rapist this year.
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Petrie → uncover → rapist
In May, Alan Greer took his own life just days after a police raid on his home as part of an investigation into offences dating back to 2012.
uncertain
Greer → take → 2012
An investigation has since discovered he was a violent rapist who attacked more than a dozen women over more than a decade.
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who → discover → decade
Cameron Ross, a former constable, was jailed in July for raping two women and abusing a third.
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Ross → jail → third
And earlier this week Carmichael John Williamson was found guilty at the High Court of Edinburgh of raping a teenage girl and a woman between 2014 and 2022.
Assistant Chief Constable Tim Mairs said: ‘Petrie committed a series of severely abusive, exploitative and violent crimes towards women.
‘His offending is in stark contrast to the professionalism and commitment of the officers who investigated him and ultimately helped bring him to justice.
‘This investigation shows the public that when matters of this nature are reported to us – regardless of who the perpetrator is – that victims are listened to and supported as we take immediate action to identify and investigate those responsible.’
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we → find → those
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