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A pistillate who was raped by Superdry co-founder James Holder has told the BBC she had been moving for him astatine the clip of the onslaught and had to instrumentality to enactment to look him conscionable days later.
Gemma, not her existent name, was attacked by the disgraced manner brag successful her ain location aft Holder got into her taxi pursuing enactment drinks connected a Friday nighttime successful 2022.
In an exclusive interview, she described feeling fearfulness and dread connected the pursuing Monday greeting arsenic she walked into enactment astatine a caller concern Holder had launched aft leaving Superdry successful 2016.
Asked whether helium spoke to her that week, she said: "Yeah, helium did. Very overmuch similar helium would person spoken to maine the week before. As if thing had happened."
Multi-millionaire Holder, 54, was jailed successful May for 8 years for raping Gemma, successful what the tribunal heard was a "despicable portion of intersexual violence".
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Due to her close to anonymity, Gemma's moving narration with Holder was incapable to antecedently beryllium reported.
However, successful her archetypal media interview, Gemma revealed she had archetypal worked for Holder astatine his manner steadfast Superdry successful Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, earlier joining different 1 of his businesses.
While astatine Superdry, she said she did not person immoderate nonstop enactment with Holder, describing him arsenic having an astir "celebrity-like" status.
But erstwhile she aboriginal moved jobs to enactment astatine a caller institution helium was launching, she said she became progressively alert of his "controlling" behaviour.
She described a enactment civilization wherever determination was "no country for mistakes" and everyone was connected "high alert".
"It surely was a mode of trying to bid respect and a benignant of allegiance to his agenda, for sure," she said.
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