Recorder David Chidgey dismissed Holder’s application of bail to get his affairs in order, stating the temptation for him to use his “significant resources” to leave would be “too great”.
The fashion tycoon, who set up Superdry with Julian Dunkerton in 2003, was on an “impromptu night out” on 6 May 2022 which ended at the woman’s flat, he told the court.
A witness said she had called a taxi for Holder and a separate one for the victim, but Holder had then got into the back of the victim’s taxi, destined for her home address.
The court heard Holder had fallen asleep on the woman’s bed while his friend took up the sofa in her living room, so she slept on the floor.
James Haskell, prosecuting, said Holder appeared at the living room doorway and asked her to join him in the bedroom, but she said “no, she was tired and she said he pulled her on the bed”.
