Sobbing actor faces jail for sex assault
Sunshine on Leith star groped victim while pal called NHS 24 in another room
SHAMED Scots actor Kevin Guthrie faces jail after sexually assaulting a vulnerable actress.
The Sunshine on Leith star, 33, took advantage of the 29-year-old who had appeared ill after a night out.
The incident occurred at the flat of fellow actor Scott Reid – Methadone Mick in BBC’s Still Game.
Guthrie had insisted he had only “helped” the woman that night but his DNA was found inside her underwear.
The predator wept and said “why?” as the verdict was read out at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday.
He had denied a sexual assault charge.
Sheriff Tom Hughes told him: “You took advantage of this woman while she was in a vulnerable position.
“This must carry a custodial sentence for this serious matter you have been found guilty of.”
Guthrie, of the city’s Yorkhill, was put on the sex offenders list.
He was bailed pending sentencing next month.
The attack occurred between September 30 and October 1, 2017.
The woman had been due to meet Guthrie and Scott at a bar on the night of the alleged attack. But Scott received a call from a taxi driver to collect her as she appeared ill. He and Guthrie helped the woman into the flat in Glasgow’s Kelvindale and put her on a bed.
Scott called NHS 24, leaving Guthrie in the room “to make sure she was OK”.
But, the woman told how she was left “frozen” as she recalled her “top being lifted” and her “bra being held down” by Guthrie.
She added: “There would be times when Scott would come back in the room and he would pull the covers back on top of me and pull my top down.”
Guthrie carried out a further two sexual acts and kissed her on the mouth.