The Paper's reporter Cheng Xiaojun
On May 14, British local time, Kevin Guthrie, a Scottish actor who starred in the popular films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Dunkirk, was sentenced to three years in prison for sexual assault, and was immediately executed.
Guthrie played the American magician Abernethy in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series.
On the night of 30 September 2017, Guthrie and another Scottish actor, Scott Reid, met a 29-year-old woman at a pub in Glasgow, but then the plan changed, and the woman took a taxi directly to Reed's house to meet the two. In the car, the woman felt severely unwell. Eventually, when she arrives at Reed's apartment, Kevin Guthrie is responsible for sending her to her bedroom to rest, while Reed is busy calling the hospital for help. According to the woman, in the process, Gusley took off her blouse, put his hands on her, and even forcibly kissed her until Scott Reed returned to the bedroom after making the call.
In September 2020, prosecutors formally made sexual assault charges against Gusley, which was scheduled to begin in January this year, but has been postponed due to the new crown epidemic. In the middle of last month, after a four-day trial, the judge finally found Kevin Gusley guilty of sexual assault and set his sentence this week to three years, and even after his release from prison, his sexual assault status will be permanently registered in the file, and future employment and life will be subject to a certain degree of supervision.
In court, Guthrie denied that he had sexually assaulted the woman, but instead said he had only reached out to the other person after he collapsed unwell. However, according to the police investigation, the inside of the female victim's underwear can find Gusley's DNA. The police also pointed out in court that Gusley's practice of taking advantage of people's danger harms women's physical and mental health and must be severely punished.
In 2017, Guthrie (left) collaborated with fellow Scottish actor James McAvoy on the stage play Macbeth.
Born in March 1988 to a working-class family in Scotland, Kevin Gusley studied acting at the Royal Scottish College of Music, and while still in college at the age of 22, he was given the golden opportunity to star in the role of Peter Pan in the new stage play "Peter Pan" of the National Theatre of Scotland, and his early career development was quite smooth.
Later, in 2016's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Kevin Gusri played the American magician Abernessy in 2016's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In the Magical Congress of the United States, he is the boss of the sisters Tina and Queenie, Flowers, and is responsible for overseeing their actions, but for various reasons, he becomes an accomplice of the main villain Grindelwald. At present, in the third "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" scheduled for release in 2022, the role of Abernethy should not appear, so there is no need to change actors because Gusley is in prison.
In addition to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, he has performed significantly in the song and dance films Sunshine on Leith (2013), The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015) and Sunset Song (2015). In 2017's "Dunkirk", Gusley could only play a nameless and nameless extra, but in the Netflix high-scoring web series "The English Game" that began in 2020, Gusri played one of the protagonists, the first professional footballer in history, Fergus Souter, which was impressive. Nowadays, the original promising film and television drama multi-habitat artists have been imprisoned for their misconduct, completely ruining their future.
Guthrie played Fergus Sutter, the first professional footballer in history.
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