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Actor Kevin Guthrie: three years in prison for "heinous act"
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The actor Kevin Guthrie has to go to prison for three years.
He was convicted of sexually abusing a woman in a Glasgow apartment.
The BBC reports.
The 33-year-old denied the crime and told the court in the Scottish metropolis that he had only "helped" the woman.
However, an opinion was submitted to the court, according to which traces of Guthrie's DNA had been found in the woman's underwear.
According to the investigation, Guthrie and fellow actor Scott Reid had an appointment with the 29-year-old in a bar on the evening of September 30, 2017.
A taxi driver called Reid because the passenger was bad.
The two actors then brought the woman into the apartment.
Reid then tried to call an ambulance and asked Guthrie to take care of the woman in the next room.
In court, the woman testified that she remembered her top being pushed up and her bra pulled down.
She was picked up by Guthrie before he performed several sexual acts on her.
When Reid returned to the room, he stopped.
Kevin Guthrie became known in Scotland for the lead role in the musical "Sunshine on Leith", which tells the story of two Afghanistan veterans to songs by the Proclaimers.
He is known internationally from the role of the magician Mr. Abernathy from the two film adaptations of Joanne K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts".
In the Netflix series "The English Game" by "Downton Abbey" inventor Julian Fellowes Guthrie played one of the leading roles, the Scottish footballer Fergus Suter, who was hired as a professional in England.
The judge at the Glasgow Sheriff Court said in the verdict that the court must show that women can be protected from violence. Guthrie's offenses would have agonized the young woman and had aftereffects. The jury had come to believe that he had committed the heinous deeds for which only imprisonment could be an appropriate punishment.
The Scottish regional program of the BBC had already announced after the guilty verdict against Guthrie that it would replace him as narrator in the documentary series "Inside Central Station" by another actor.
As the film studio Warner Bros. announced to the US industry service »Deadline«, Kevin Guthrie was not intended as Abernathy in the third »Fantastic Beasts« film, in which Mads Mikkelsen took on the role of Gellert Grindelwald after Johnny Depp's retirement .
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