Football rape case woman ‘needed help’

A WOMAN who claims she was raped by two footballers was in need of an ambulance when she left a club, a bouncer working that night told a court yesterday.

The 30-year-old woman is suing former Scotland striker David Goodwillie, 27, and ex-St Johnstone player David Robertson, 30, for £500,000 in damages at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

She claims both men raped her in the early hours at a flat in Armadale, West Lothian, because she had drunk too much to give consent to sexual intercourse.

Security employee Gayle McGregor was searching for the woman after she lost a purse at the nightclub in Bathgate in the early hours of January 2, 2011.

The woman’s counsel, Simon Di Rollo, QC, asked Miss McGregor, 40, what she doing when she came across her. She said: ‘She was leaning against the front doors. She wasn’t in control of herself.

‘Her eyes were rolling in her head. She couldn’t stand up straight.’

Goodwillie’s counsel Dorothy Bain, QC, asked if she thought the woman needed an ambulance. Miss McGregor said she thought she did but later Robertson had offered to take her home. She said she told him to phone 999 if she fell unconscious.

Ex-Dundee United player Goodwillie, now with Plymouth Argyle, and Robertson, deny the allegation and maintain that intercourse was consensual. Neither was prosecuted. The hearing continues.