“I want to commend each victim in reporting these offences to police and for having the strength to stand up in court, making sure he was held accountable for his actions, and ultimately convicted. He was put on the sex offenders register indefinitely.ĭet Sgt Lesley Couper, of Police Scotland’s public protection unit, said after the sentencing: “Armour is a predator who showed utter disregard for the impact on his victims. ‘Predator’Īrmour, from Fife, who went on to live in Congleton, Cheshire, claimed all three women were “fantasists”. She said she did not feel able to report the rape at the time as she “did not think for one moment she would be believed”. She said she had consensually kissed Armour before he forced himself on her and raped her. The third victim, now 53, was also raped in a bedroom. If I’d opened up, I would not have had 30 to 40 years with horses.
I was a naïve young girl and it was the start of my career. Asked why she had not reported what happened at the time, she said: “I was scared. He slapped his hand over her mouth and ordered her to be quiet. The second victim, now 59, was woken by squeaking floorboards as Armour came into her bedroom. She told the jury at the High Court trial in Stirling: “I felt sick. Similar attacks occurred over the next two years, during some of which she was smacked with a riding crop and had her head held under running taps. He walked into a stable where she was working, assaulted and then raped her. The victim, now 57, who went to Rape Crisis, told the court Armour had been a complete stranger to her.
It is clear the women, despite the passage of many years, found it upsetting to repeat what you had done.” You stayed while on leave and had access to attack the trainees. All were committed at an equestrian centre and against young female trainees who lived there. Sentencing him at the High Court in Glasgow, the judge said: “These offences date back to the 1980s when you were a young soldier. Lord Young, the judge, said despite having a “responsible and disciplined” role in the military, Armour had left the victims suffering “real physical and emotional damage”. The unit provides horse teams pulling 13-pounder guns on royal occasions and takes part in Trooping the Colour. The 57-year-old escaped justice for decades until 2019, when one victim reported her ordeal to Rape Crisis and the police, prompting an investigation into abuse at a centre in Fife.Īrmour, who was known as Chris, represented Britain as an Army showjumper and was a bombardier in the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. James Armour was convicted of raping the girls, aged 17 to 19, between 19 while on leave from military duty. A former showjumper and King’s Horseman has been jailed for 10 years for raping three teenage trainee instructors at a riding school.
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