Overview
- In court, James Holder told jurors the sexual encounter at the woman’s flat was consensual and said he stopped when she said it was painful.
- Prosecutor James Haskell set out a case that the woman was drunk and vulnerable and said Holder exploited that state during a non-consensual assault.
- Witnesses described the late-night taxi shuffle in Cheltenham and said Holder refused to go home before getting into the complainant’s cab and ending up at her address.
- The complainant filmed Holder asleep on her bed and later gave a video-recorded police interview in July 2022 describing being pulled onto the bed and crying.
- Holder, 54, denies charges of rape and assault by penetration, and the trial at Gloucester Crown Court sitting in Cirencester continues without a verdict.