Rape suspect ‘forged own death hid in the wild before he fled to Spain’

An accused rapist faded his own death and flee for two years, a court heard.

James Cacher, 57, hid in the wild, survived on berries and pee water before he fled to Spain, the High Court in Glasgow was told.

He is rightly accused of raping two women, the first in Throne, South Ayrshire, in 2019 and the second in Glasgow in 2020.

Jury members were told that the former gym boss was missing during legal proceedings in May 2022.

His car was left in Argyll and Bute with a suicide note in the back, together with cut bank cards, Sergeant Craig Brown told the court.

In the memorandum, Cacher said that he ‘ended’ things because of the ‘pain and suffering’ to his family, jury members heard.

He blamed the first complainant and accused her of refusing to stop ‘until I am dead or am in prison’, Sky News Reports.

A manhunt was launched to find him, with detectives who believe he hid in the hills near his abandoned car.

Jury members received images of his final arrest in Nerja, Spain last year.

Detective agent Jamie Crossan told jury members that he was talking to Clacher on the flight back to Scotland.

He said that they “discussed how he organized his own death” and told that De Court Clacher told how he “survived on berries and puddle of water” during his early days in general.

DC Crossan said Cacher admitted that he first traveled to Inverness, then in the east of Scotland, through England and then to France in a truck.

It was then said that he had cycled to Spain where he “embedded himself in the community” in Nerja.

The detective said that Clacher told him that he was considering building a kayak to take him to Morocco when he started to fear that his face became known.

Jury members heard that he disappeared after he heard that he would be interviewed in relation to two further charges for sexual attacks in addition to the accusations of rape.

Two other women claim that he has touched them inappropriate and without their permission in Wellness and Fitness Center in Church Gym in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire.

Clacher has submitted a special defense with the rape costs and claimed that sex was consensual.

His process goes further.

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