Dariusz Matejewicz

Dariusz Matejewicz, a 39-year-old man, has been convicted and sentenced in the UK for a series of violent and sexual offenses committed against four women and a baby girl. His crime spree spanned nearly 15 years, from May 2007 to March 2022, and occurred in various locations across Scotland, including Inverness, Aviemore, Dingwall, and Glenrothes in Fife.

Key Facts and Charges:

Matejewicz was found guilty of 12 crimes, including five offenses of rape, assault to danger of life, assault, indecent assault, and stalking. The trial judge, Lord Stuart, described the case as difficult with "unpleasant" subject matter.

Specific instances of his crimes include:

• Repeatedly hitting, grabbing by the neck, holding a knife to the neck, pulling out hair, seizing a hand over a hot cooker, and kicking a partner between May 2007 and September 2008 in Aviemore and Inverness. He also locked her in a property, threatened to kill her, and subjected her to repeated rapes and sexual assaults.
• Attacking and raping a second woman on October 5, 2011, in Glenrothes, beginning the assault while she was asleep and continuing after she awoke.
• Subjecting a third woman to aggressive behavior, shouting, threats of violence, and taking her mobile phone between October 2013 and June 2014 in Dingwall and other parts of Scotland. He also raped this woman at a hotel in Dingwall on June 21, 2014.
• Repeatedly raping another woman in the summer of 2021 in Inverness, brandishing a knife, pushing her, and grabbing her neck.
• Assaulting a baby girl, then aged between three and six months, on various occasions in 2008 in Inverness, to the danger of the infant's life.

Court Appearances and Decisions:

Matejewicz denied the charges during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, but a jury convicted him. He was placed on the sex offenders' register and remanded in custody following his conviction.

Sentence was initially adjourned until June 11 at the High Court in Stirling for a background report and risk assessment. On July 7, 2026, at the High Court in Stirling, Lord Stuart sentenced Matejewicz to an extended sentence of 25 years. This includes 18 years in custody, with the remaining seven years to be served in the community, subject to recall to prison if he re-offends. He was also made subject to non-harassment orders for life in respect of all four rape victims, banning him from contacting or approaching them.