David Goodwillie’s rape victim Denise Clair ‘asks Crown for private prosecution’ as she ‘wants to see justice done’
DAVID Goodwillie's rape victim has asked the Crown to allow a private prosecution against the footballer.
Denise Clair contacted the Lord Advocate asking for the go ahead to take the action, the Sunday Post reports.
Ms Clair is seeking the private prosecution against Goodwillie and former teammate David Robertson.
A civil case ruled in 2017 that Goodwillie, 32, and former Dundee United team-mate David Robertson raped Denise Clair after a drunken night out in Bathgate, West Lothian, in 2011.
Prosecutors refused to bring criminal proceedings against them but mum-of-one Denise - who waived her right to anonymity - launched a civil case.
Ms Clair said: "In 2011 the Crown Office asked me to simply walk away when the men who raped me went entirely unpunished.
"I didn't walk away then and I won't walk away now.
"It's about me and what happened to me but it's for all the women failed like me."
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If the private action is allowed, Ms Clair will have to convince a panel of judges that exceptional circumstances make a private prosecution her only hope for justice.
Ms Clair previously said that everyone who helped him continue his career in football should be ashamed.
The Scottish Tories shadow minister for community justice, Russell Findlay MSP, wrote to the Lord Advocate about Ms Clair's case.
Findlay responded after Solicitor General Ruth Charteris stood by the original decision to drop the charges and said there was not enough evidence for the prospect of a criminal conviction and that the standard of proof needed in civil actions is different.
The MSP said: "Very experienced prosecutors who have reviewed the evidence do not agree with the Crown's assessment that the charges should have been dropped, and the independent review conducted in 2017 does little to allay concerns, not least because no one outside the Crown Office has actually seen it."
The Crown Office has been approached for comment by The Scottish Sun.
Nicola Sturgeon backs McDermid’s ‘fit & proper’ footballer test proposal after Raith signing of rapist David Goodwillie
Goodwillie's signing for the Fife side Raith Rovers sparked an angry public backlash.
Several top figures in the club, quit over the signing of Goodwillie.
Women’s captain Tyler Rattray ended her ten-year stint with Rovers, while her teammates moved to ditch the Kirkcaldy club’s name and badge - and shift home matches from Stark’s Park.
Raith Rovers AXED Goodwillie after the public outrage, just days after his signing.
Club boss John McGlynn had admitted the club made an "enormous mistake" when they signed David Goodwillie.
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The club recently faced calls to make donations to rape survivor charities after reports of a payoff for the 32-year-old striker.
The move led crime author Val McDermid, who severed all ties with the club after the rapist's signing, to call for a fit and proper test for footballers, which has been backed by Nicola Sturgeon.
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