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A millionaire Scots tipster has been found guilty of indecent communication with a woman working at his home in the Highlands. Kevin Booth has been convicted of directing indecent communication towards a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, without her consent at his Lochdu Lodge in Altnabreac, Halkirk, in 2022. At her husband's suggestion, the victim, now 40, began to take video and audio recordings of her conversations with the 65-year-old during her role of housekeeping and doing massages. Booth was heard asking her if she knew how to spank and offered her extra money to perform a sexual act at his home where he lived with his wife and young child between August 8, 2022, and December 9, 2022, reports the BBC . The horse racing tipster denied the charge at Wick Sheriff Court but was told by Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald that she did not accept his evidence and did not find it credible. Booth, who told the court he believed the conversations were consensual, has now been found guilty and placed on the sex offenders register as sentencing was deferred until next month. Earlier this year, Booth was found to have trafficked and exploited women and violently whipped them at Lochdhu Lodge and overseas in a separate civil case . He was given a five-year overseas travel ban. We previously reported that the woman found the job through a Facebook group and her contract included "cutting weeds" and providing massages to Booth . She was driven several hundred miles to Booth's home by her husband, and said she could not leave as she did not know where in Scotland she was and could not drive. Giving evidence with the assistance of an interpreter, the woman told the court she was "surprised" Booth was naked for the massages except for a towel covering his "private parts". She said Booth spoke to her after the massages , which took place either in his office or a "private room", and would give her a "rating" for them, saying they were "normally seven out of 10, but sometimes eight out of 10". The woman said after one of the massages Booth offered her an "extra payment" to "spank" him. On another occasion, she said, he offered her additional money "if there was a happy ending", and that he explained it to her when she asked him what it meant. She said she refused these requests, telling him at one point that she had children , and adding she had not done anything to suggest she was "interested in discussing these kinds of things". She also said that at one point, the towel with which Booth covered himself during massages was replaced with a "handkerchief". She said: "I started recording because whenever the cover (fell) he asked me to pick it up and cover himself, and (said) it is not his job to cover himself." She described the effect Booth's actions had on her, saying: "I am actually afraid, there is fear in my chest but I did my best not to show him. "I was scared and nervous. I cannot really explain how I felt, but I was scared and nervous."
