Holder went back to woman’s Cheltenham flat after night out and refused to stop assault even when she began crying
A co-founder of the clothing company Superdry has been jailed for eight years for raping a woman after a night out in Cheltenham.
James Holder, 54, had been due to get a taxi back to his home in the Cotswolds with a male friend. Instead, the pair got into the victim’s taxi and went to her flat in the Gloucestershire town, where Holder raped her.
A jury heard the woman asked Holder to stop but he did not, even when she began crying. The court heard she was more vulnerable because she was intoxicated.
Holder, of Cheltenham, had accepted that sexual activity took place in May 2022 but claimed at his trial it was consensual.
