Overview
- Holder, 54, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday after a jury last week found him guilty of raping a woman in 2022.
- The court heard he followed her to her Cheltenham flat, fell asleep on her bed, then raped her as she cried and asked him to stop.
- Jurors cleared him of a separate assault-by-penetration charge, and the judge condemned the rape as “despicable” and driven by entitlement.
- Bail was denied earlier due to flight‑risk concerns tied to his wealth, and he appeared for sentencing by video link from HMP Hewell.
- Superdry said the case does not involve the company and that Holder had no operational role there at the time of the offence.