THE MULTIMILLIONAIRE co-founder of clothing firm Superdry was jailed for eight years today after being found guilty of raping a woman in her home.

Married father-of-two James Holder, 54, attacked the woman in the early hours of May 7 2022 after a night out at a bar in Cheltenham.

Sentencing him at Bristol Crown Court, Recorder David Chidgey said the “despicable piece of sexual violence… was about entitlement, it was about your sense of entitlement and your sense of doing what you wanted and your casual disregard for the victim’s absolute right to say what she wanted to do with her own body.”

Jurors heard Holder, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and a friend had gone back to her home uninvited, and he raped her after waking from a short nap on her bed.

She told his trial that she was crying and asking him to stop but he carried on.