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Superdry co-founder raped me, then acted like nothing had happened · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: My name is James Holder, and I co founded a
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  Speaker 1: clothing brand called super Dry. I'm a design obsessive.
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  Speaker 2: You might not have heard of him, but you will
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  Speaker 2: know the company he helped to create. James Holder was
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  Speaker 2: a big name in fashion with an ego to match.
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  Speaker 2: He made this video for self promotion. Do you ever
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  Speaker 2: have any extramarital affairs with other people? Not that, but
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  Speaker 2: this is the footage she'd rather you didn't see being
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  Speaker 2: questioned by police after raping a woman in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: You don't go.
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  Speaker 1: I love women.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love women. I think they're the best planet.
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  Speaker 1: Because I am Old Schulibory, mister Darcy.
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  Speaker 2: Women Holders now serving an eight year prison sentence.
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  Speaker 3: It was I was very apprehensive and.
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  Speaker 2: And the woman he raped is rebuilding her life. She's
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  Speaker 2: entitled to anonyma, but has revealed for the first time
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  Speaker 2: that Holder was her boss.
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  Speaker 4: He was accountable to know when if that makes sense,
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  Speaker 4: he had free reign of his own behaviors that sort
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  Speaker 4: of entitle them because of the position of power is
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  Speaker 4: incredibly dangerous in a work environment.
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  Speaker 2: Four years ago, Holder and his team went for some
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  Speaker 2: drinks one night after work at this bar in Cheltenham.
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  Speaker 2: When it came time to leave, he jumped into the
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  Speaker 2: woman's taxi uninvited and then followed her into her apartment,
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  Speaker 2: where he raped her.
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  Speaker 3: How much are you able to tell me about what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Not much. It's still something which is very raw.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's four years ago that the memory of the
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  Speaker 2: nightmare I can see in your face is painful. Clearly,
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  Speaker 2: in that moment that night, he abused his power, his position.
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  Speaker 3: And trust and trust.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Neither holder nor the woman worked at super Dry at
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  Speaker 2: the time. He'd left the company six years earlier, but
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  Speaker 2: he was still her boss, now employing her as another
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  Speaker 2: one of his businesses.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that he's the person that's paying your wage
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  Speaker 4: every month, the fact that you know, you don't know
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  Speaker 4: what on earth is the path that is going to
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  Speaker 4: happen next. You don't know what's going to happen next.
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  Speaker 2: You went into the office the working week after this happened,
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  Speaker 2: he was around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but nerve wracking. Actually did he talk to.
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  Speaker 4: You, Yeah, yeah, he did, very much like you would
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  Speaker 4: have spoken to me the week before.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't acknowledge what had happened. Was one of.
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  Speaker 2: The factors here for you that you're worried about your livelihood.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely worried about that.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I was going to have the whole
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  Speaker 4: world against me saying you are wrong, you invited it.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it felt like because to me, that person
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  Speaker 4: of that status, that kind of position, because money was
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  Speaker 4: no issue to him.
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  Speaker 3: David and Goliath.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, basically, yeah, yeah, David and Goliath.
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  Speaker 2: This case follows other high profile sexual abuse scandals, including
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  Speaker 2: that at Harold's and others in the world of fashion
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  Speaker 2: retail such as Abercrombie and Fitch.
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  Speaker 4: There's a level of control and there's a level of
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  Speaker 4: like power and trust that just gets completely exploited.
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  Speaker 2: And you think that is something which the fashion industry
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  Speaker 2: has turned a blind eye to.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it has been a culture within the industry that
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  Speaker 4: I've seen, and you know, there is a level of
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  Speaker 4: misogynistic behavior in the industry.
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  Speaker 2: The woman holder rape so she once regarded him like
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  Speaker 2: a celebrity. She wants the public to know he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: deserve that status.
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  Speaker 3: How would you like James Holden now to be known.
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  Speaker 4: As a rapist because that's what he is. Why celebrate
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  Speaker 4: somebody who's committed a crime? So what is the founder
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  Speaker 4: of a brand. Essentially, he is a criminal. He should
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  Speaker 4: own what he's done solely because he was the one
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  Speaker 4: who committed the crime. He owns that, So that is
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  Speaker 4: exactly should it should be what comes up when you
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  Speaker 4: google him.
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  Speaker 2: This video may have been a vain attempt of Holders
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  Speaker 2: to control the narrative. He posted it long after leaving
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  Speaker 2: Super Dry and after being questioned by police about the rape.
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  Speaker 1: My own area of expertise being able to design product
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  Speaker 1: and predict trend. I am literally useless to anything else
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  Speaker 1: and has some very impressive mistakes under my belt.
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  Speaker 2: This was Holder, moments after he was convicted of rape.
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  Speaker 2: The police said the bravery of the woman coming forward
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  Speaker 2: may well have prevented others becoming victims of his sexual violence.
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  Speaker 2: Judith Morritz, BBC News