ANDY KEIR

A former Broughty Ferry bar owner has been jailed for rape.Andy Keir, the ex-boss of Bruach who resigned as director of Dundee-based pub operator DD5 Ltd last year, forced himself on his victim while she slept at his home in Monifieth.The woman woke - not knowing where she was or who she was with - and found Keir performing a sex act on her.Keir then raped her.She fled immediately - not stopping to pick up all of her clothes - and called 999 from a payphone in the street.Glasgow High Court heard 38-year-old Keir continued to "hotly deny" any criminality, maintaining the act had been consensual.However, a jury rejected his claims and found him guilty of raping the woman while she was intoxicated, asleep and incapable of giving her consent, on November 11 2019.Keir, now of Pathhead, Midlothian, was jailed for five years.He has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.Judge Douglas Brown said: "This crime was committed when you were running a business and followed a night out drinking.""After the victim became heavily intoxicated you went back to your house with her."The judge said jurors heard how the woman was disorientated when she woke at Keir's then-home in Muirn...

A former Broughty Ferry bar owner has been jailed for rape.Andy Keir, the ex-boss of Bruach who resigned as director of Dundee-based pub operator DD5 Ltd last year, forced himself on his victim while she slept at his home in Monifieth.The woman woke - not knowing where she was or who she was with - and found Keir performing a sex act on her.Keir then raped her.She fled immediately - not stopping to pick up all of her clothes - and called 999 from a payphone in the street.Glasgow High Court heard 38-year-old Keir continued to "hotly deny" any criminality, maintaining the act had been consensual.However, a jury rejected his claims and found him guilty of raping the woman while she was intoxicated, asleep and incapable of giving her consent, on November 11 2019.Keir, now of Pathhead, Midlothian, was jailed for five years.He has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely.Judge Douglas Brown said: "This crime was committed when you were running a business and followed a night out drinking.""After the victim became heavily intoxicated you went back to your house with her."The judge said jurors heard how the woman was disorientated when she woke at Keir's then-home in Muirn...