SPURNED POLICE OFFICER STALKED EX-PARTNER IN GLASGOW'S EAST END AND ORDERED NOT TO CONTACT HER
A spurned police officer convicted of stalking an ex-lover was today ordered not to contact her for two years.Ross Meldrum, 39, kept tabs on the woman which eventually led to the constable being charged by colleagues.
This included at her new home in Glasgow's East End and the former marital property in Glenboig, Lanarkshire.
The woman recalled how she was left "scared" by Meldrum, who also claimed to have personal information on her current partner.
The officer was convicted in March of stalking following a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The crime took place in August 2024.
Sheriff Mary Shields today admonished Meldrum for the offence.
However, she imposed a two-year non-harassment order which prohibits his contact with the woman.
The same sheriff gave Meldrum 147 hours of unpaid work in June this year after he pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.
He was also tagged for four months.
The previous trial was told how the woman had gone to their former home to collect belongings.
She was then left "shocked" on seeing a "drunk" Masterton also turn up.
The woman told the trial: "He told me about the new man [she was dating], his name, that he had kids, his ex-wife's name and the football team that he coached." "I was getting scared at this point - he followed me out and I walked to my car which was in the driveway.
"I got in the car and he knelt down at the side so I could not close my door." The panicked woman called her mother, who ended up arguing with the constable over the car's Bluetooth speaker.
She later returned to her new home.
It was there that two girls bizarrely appeared at her door with a bottle of Mountain Dew, which she knew was Meldrum's "favourite drink".
The woman recalled: "They said they met a man in the lane who asked them to give it to the woman at my address." The girls told her that they were paid £1 and were to "pretend” that it was a female who gave them the juice.
The woman then showed the girls a photo of Meldrum on her phone and they confirmed that he was the man who they had met in the lane.
The trial also heard of texts creepy Meldrum had sent.
The woman told the trial: "I thought this had to end." But, she initially claimed, despite what happened, she was "not sure" whether to report her ex "worried that it may affect his job".
However, she eventually called police as she was frightened Meldrum could be "impulsive" when drinking.
In his evidence, Meldrum - who had five years' service - told how he got the girls to deliver the juice as it was the "least threatening" way to see if the woman was home.
He also said it was the woman who gave him information about her new man.
This was said to include a claim that her partner "had criminal connections with the Lyons crime gang".
But, in cross-examination, fiscal Jacky Wall put to him: "The position is you simply cannot accept that your ex-partner has moved on." Meldrum denied this.
