November 2008 Policeman Suspender – ed! A disgraced ex-policeman has been suspended from his job at a call centre after Sunday Life exposed him as convicted child rapist. Shocked colleagues at TeleTech’s centre in Belfast contacted us after reading how sleazebag Eric Millar had been jailed for 10 years for the multiple rape of a girl he first attacked when she was a 15-year-old member of a scout pack where he was a leader. Members of an adult sex fetish contact club also got in touch to out Millar as a ‘gold member’ of the website after being horrified to discover the bondage and cross-dressing fantantic was a convicted sex attacker. One colleague of Millar’s at TeleTech’s Duncairn Gardens base said: “I wouldn’t be happy if my own daughter was working in the same building as this creep. “We have teenagers coming in from school to work part-time and they come in wearing their school uniforms. “They’re not much older that that girl (the scout) was when he first raped her.” When Sunday Life contacted TeleTech we were told inquiries had to be directed to the firm’s Manchester base, and in turn we were directed to the company’s senior Press officer in Denver, Colorado. The US-based spokeswoman said: “Eric Millar is a TeleTech employee, although we have suspended him pending a full review of the situation.” She promised a more detailed response to our questions once the review had been completed. Ex-police bodyguard Millar was caged in 1999 after a jury unanimously found him guilty of seven rapes over a number of years. His victim, who reported him after she became a police officer, said Millar first raped her in the loft of an east Belfast church hall after telling her she was a “flirt” who was going “to get what she deserved”. She was 15 at the time and afraid no one — not even her parents — would believe her if she reported Millar. The woman, who was in her mid-20s at the time of the trial, wept as she told the jury: “I thought people would think I was cheap and dirty.” She said Millar preyed on her over the next few years, raping her as they drove home from scout meetings and told how once he dressed up in stockings, suspenders and high heels to indulge his fantasies. He had also asked her to go to sex parties. The victim said she thought the first rape was “one-off”, adding “but it went on and on — every time I just hoped it would be the last.” Millar denied rape, claiming he had consensual sex with the girl after she turned 17 and admitted to dressing up in women’s underwear for sexual pleasure. Aside from calls from concerned colleagues at TeleTech, members of a kinky internet sex contact club also directed us to Millar’s webpages in which the 55-year-old describes himself as a “free spirit, lover of kink and fun play” whose pleasures include bondage, spanking, cross-dressing, sex role-playing and numerous sex toys. The ex-scoutmaster, who joined the fetish contact site two years ago, goes into great detail about his various fetishes but also tells how he enjoys camping, swimming and canoeing. Ironically, the convicted rapist complains about the media. In a message to a fellow fetish club member he says Northern Ireland is full of “sexy/kinky people” but people were too afraid to meet up or chat with him even when contacted through adult sites. The rapist said the “sad situation” was the result of “the gutter press clamouring for a juicy story”. Jailing Millar back in 1999, Lord Justice McDermott blasted the disgraced police officer for instructing his lawyers to put details of the victim’s private life in the public domain. “Every piece of ‘dirt’ that he could find was put to her. He sought to have her shamed and disgraced,” he said. The judge added that the RUC officer and scoutmaster had taken advantage of his position of trust and of the 15-year-old girl’s fear of him and had “damaged her for life”. June 1999 Policeman in stockings jailed for raping girl A policeman who dressed up in stockings, suspenders and high heels when he raped a young girl in the Scout troop he ran was jailed for ten years yesterday. RUC Constable Eric Millar stood shaking and weeping in the dock at Belfast Crown Court as the judge condemned him for using the girl as an object “for the gratification of his baser desires”. Millar (47) was jailed for ten years on each of seven charges of rape committed over a five-year period between 1988 and 1993. The first offence was committed when his victim, now aged 26, was just 15. She sat impassive with her parents in the back of the court to watch sentence handed down. Mr Justice Gillen told Millar that as a police officer and a senior figure in the Scout movement he was a person in whom his victim had placed trust and confidence. He said: “You abused that position and achieved such a dominance over this young woman that she was powerless to resist your sexual demands. “This court must be concerned to protect women against the predatory instincts of males such as you.” He said Millar had acted without any consideration for the consequences for his victim or for his own wife and two young children. The judge said Millar had lost his career and his reputation. Prison would be hard for him, both because he was a police officer and because of the nature of his offences – but the offences were so serious nothing short of a severe sentence was right. Millar was being sentenced following conviction at the end of a ten- day trial in April. At the trial, the victim, who cannot be identified, told the court Millar abused and raped her over a five-year period. Millar, whose address was given as Lisnasharragh RUC station, East Belfast, took the girl to the loft of a church hall, telling her he had to check on Scout equipment stored there. But he then accused her of being a flirt and told her he was going to “give her something she deserved”, then raped her. His victim broke down in tears at the trial when she said Millar had raped her a number of times over the next five years. He took her to his caravan and raped her when they had attended a Scout jamboree in 1989. Millar dressed up in ladies suspenders, stockings and high heels before raping her in her own home while her parents were out. He also raped her at a Scout concert in 1993. She told the court that she did not tell anyone about the rapes because she thought her parents would believe Millar rather than her. She finally reported the rapes to police when Millar tried to contact her after she married.