A GP from the Highlands has been the subject of reports to the General Medical Council (GMC) about abusive online comments concerning his rapist son’s victim, the BBC understands.
Dr Andrew McFarlane’s son Daniel was convicted of raping Ellie Wilson in 2022 and jailed.
She has since become a campaigner for survivors of male sexual violence.
Dr McFarlane has been posting comments on social media to allege that his son is the victim of a miscarriage of justice and has made dozens of deeply disparaging comments about Wilson.
BBC Scotland News has contacted Dr McFarlane for comment.
Ms Wilson secretly captured Daniel McFarlane admitting to his crimes by setting her phone to record in her handbag.
McFarlane was found guilty of two rape charges and sentenced to five years in prison in July 2022.
The attacks took place between December 2017 and February 2018 when McFarlane was a medical student at the University of Glasgow.
Since the conviction Ms Wilson, who waived her anonymity, has campaigned on behalf of victims.
In January 2023 Ms Wilson, who was a politics student and champion athlete at the university at the time, released audio on X of a conversation with McFarlane covertly captured the year after the attacks.
In the recording she asks him: “Do you not get how awful it makes me feel when you say ‘I haven’t raped you’ when you have?”
McFarlane replies: “Ellie, we have already established that I have. The people that I need to believe me, believe me. I will tell them the truth one day, but not today.”
When asked how he feels about what he has done, he says: “I feel good knowing I am not in prison.”
Ms Wilson told BBC Scotland she had released the clip because many people wondered what evidence she had to secure a rape conviction.
After the trial a lawyer was found to have abused his position after Ms Wilson said she was subjected to personal attacks in court.
The Faculty of Advocates complaints committee said Lorenzo Alonzi repeatedly crossed the line of what was acceptable and found that his behaviour amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct on six of the 11 issues raised.
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