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Cofounder of British fashion brand Superdry sentenced to 8 years in prison for rape
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Cofounder of British fashion brand Superdry sentenced to 8 years in prison for rape

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LONDON (AP) — The cofounder of the British fashion brand Superdry was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for raping a woman following a night of drinking. James Holder, 54, was found guilty by a jury in Gloucester Crown Court in the west of England last week of one count of rape but acquitted of a separate charge of assault by penetration in the May 2022 assault. The accuser said Holder got in her taxi and entered her home uninvited after they had been at a bar in Cheltenham. She said he assaulted her after he awoke from a short nap. She testified that she cried as he carried on despite her pleas to stop. Holder, a married father of two, denied the charges, and said all sexual activity had been consensual.…

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