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  "path": "/news/superdry-co-founder-eight-year-jail-sentence-for-rape",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T14:11:21.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nThe co-founder of Superdry, James Holder,**** has been jailed for eight years for rape.\n\nThe 54-year-old attacked a woman in her flat after a night out in May 2022.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court today, where the judge said he was responsible for \"a despicable piece of sexual violence.\"\n\nGloucester Crown Court was told last week, he and a friend had gone to to the woman's house uninvited after a night at a bar in Cheltenham.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe founder of the fashion chain went to the toilet before taking a nap on her bed.\n\nHe then beckoned the woman, who was trying to sleep in the lounge and raped her in the early hours of May 7 2022.\n\nThe victim said in evidence that she was crying and asking the man to stop, but he continued.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, his victim said he had taken her \"choice, dignity and body\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"What you did that day has followed me, it has cast shadows where there should be light,\" she added.\n\nThe victim was able to escape from the bedroom, and Holder left a short time after.\n\nHolder denied rape, but was charged by a jury of seven men and five woman on May 1 at Gloucester Crown Court, sitting in Cirencester.\n\nHe claimed the sexual activity had been consensual.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nRecorder David Chidgey told Holder: \"It was about entitlement.\n\n\"It was about your sense of entitlement and your sense of doing what you wanted and your causal disregard for the victim's absolute right to say what she wanted to do with her own body.\"\n\nHolder showed no emotion as the sentence was passed.\n\nA witness had told the court that she had called two separate taxis, one for Holder, and one for the victim, however Holder decided to get into the the victim's taxi, which was headed for her home.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**MORE FOLLOWS...**\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Superdry co-founder handed eight-year jail sentence for raping woman"
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