The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Former United player sued for £500,000
30-year-old claims she was raped by two football stars
A woman who claims she was raped by a former Scotland striker and another football player told a court yesterday that she found herself naked and in pain after an alleged assault.
The mother of one had gone out for the evening but had no recollection of leaving a pub for a nightclub.
The 30-year-old is suing ex-Scotland striker David Goodwillie and former St Johnstone player, David Robertson, after raising a £500,000 damages claim at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
She alleges that both men raped her in the early hours of January 2 2011 at a flat in Armadale in West Lothian. It is said in the action that she was incapable because of the effect of alcohol of giving free agreement at the time when intercourse took place.
Both men deny the allegation and maintain that intercourse was consensual. Neither was prosecuted.
The woman said she realised she was in pain and told the court: “I just felt sore. I felt sore inside as if something had happened to me, but I couldn’t say what it was. I felt a lot of pain inside.”
The woman said she had arranged to go out with a female friend in Bathgate the previous evening and remembered being at the Glenmavis Tavern, also known as Smith’s, where she had seen Robertson. She said she had been drinking Jack Daniels and coke.
Mr Di Rollo asked her whether she had any recollection of the rest of the evening and she replied: “Nothing at all until I woke up the next morning.”
The woman said that later that month she was informed that DNA from former Dundee United, Blackburn Rovers and Aberdeen player Goodwillie was found on a swab taken from her.
Mr Di Rollo told the woman that it would be suggested to her that she voluntarily had intercourse with two men and asked: “Is that something you have done before?” She replied; “No”
The senior counsel asked if it was something she would ever have voluntarily agreed to and she said: “Never, I would never have agreed to do that.”
In the action it is said that she was “visibly and obviously severely intoxicated” on the night.
In the players’ defences it is said that recovered CCTV footage over a period from 23.08pm to 2.25am shows the woman was capable of walking, holding a coherent conversation and using her mobile phone.
It is maintained that it also shows her openly flirting and kissing Robertson and walking with her arm linked through Goodwillie’s arm.
Lord Armstrong was told that the amount of damages to be paid if the woman succeeds in her case has been agreed. The hearing continues.