Goodwillie admits driving home drunk after rape

SHAMED David Goodwillie has admitted driving home drunk after he raped Denise Clair.

The fallen football idol confessed he travelled 25 miles from Bathgate to Stirling after downing more than a dozen drinks, including doubles.

CCTV picked him up around 4am on January 2, 2011, walking from the flat at Greig Crescent, in Armadale, where the rape

happened, to the centre of Bathgate, where he had left his Peugeot 207.

He was then spotted by CCTV, driving to his home in Stirling.

By his own admission in court papers seen by The Sunday Post, he had consumed beer, Red Bull and vodka, and shots of spirits.

Goodwillie and a relative had arrived at the Glenmavis tavern at 10pm on January 1. The documents say that within two hours he had “six drinks”, including singles and doubles. It was there he encountered David Robertson chatting to Denise.

Goodwillie and the relative left the pub at about midnight and went to Chalmers night club nearby where he once again saw Denise and continued drinking.

In the following hours, he admitted having “five or six drinks” and “possibly some shots”.

He left Chalmers at around 2am, describing himself as “probably really drunk”, in the company of Denise and David Robertson.

By then, the footballers had acquired the keys to the flat in Armadale, where they took Denise and raped her.

But despite his admission, he will not face prosecution for drinkdriving – because of Scottish legal rules which stipulate that every crime must be corroborated with more evidence than just one person’s testimony.