A former golf professional convicted of rape has failed in his bid to sue the Scottish Government for £700,000.
Graham Gordon was jailed for five years for attacking a vulnerable woman he met in an Aberdeen nightclub.
The 55-year-old has always maintained his innocence and claims his victim was a willing partner.
A jury at the High Court in Stonehaven found him guilty.
He launched an appeal to clear his name, claiming he had defective legal representation but the case was dismissed in 2004.
The following year he approached the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) in an attempt to reopen his case.
The case was referred to the High Court on the basis that police inquiry errors and other “irregularities” may have undermined the fairness of his trial in 2002.
The golfer presented his own case at a three-day hearing but was not granted leave to appeal.
His case was put before the SCCRC again in 2011, but the review commission decided it was not in the interests of justice to refer the case back to court.
Gordon launched legal action against the criminal cases review commission and the Scottish Government last year seeking £695,000 compensation amid claims of “gross negligence”.
But a sheriff has now ruled against him and the case has been closed – although the former golfer could lodge yet another appeal.
Gordon was jailed in after he was found guilty of raping a 43-year-old woman at his home in the Bridge of Don area of Aberdeen in 2001.
The golfer, who turned professional at the age of 16, pulled the woman on to his living room floor, pulled her clothes off and had sex with her, despite her protests.
At his trial, he told the jury he could not clearly remember what had happened that night because he had slept with 15 women in the previous fortnight.
But he insisted that the woman was a willing partner.
He told detectives that he had sex with at least 32 women in three months and could not remember some of the details of the incident at his flat because he had slept with three women that weekend.
As a teenager, Gordon was regarded as one of Scotland’s most talented young golfers.
He was attached to Glencorse Golf Club near Edinburgh and was runner-up in the Scottish under-21 championship.
He later moved to Aberdeen to work in the oil industry.
Gordon, who now lives at Westhill, studied law after he was jailed and represented himself at recent court hearings.