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David Goodwillie leaves Plymouth Argyle by mutual agreement.

David Goodwillie of Plymouth Argyle
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Plymouth Argyle have confirmed that David Goodwillie has left the club by mutual agreement.

The 27-year-old striker is to take a sabbatical so he can appeal against a judgement, made last week, in which he was ruled to have raped a woman and ordered to pay £100,000 damages.

According to the Plymouth Argyle website, the striker "has asked the club to terminate his contract of employment in order that he can focus his time on a potential appeal of the civil judgement made against him." The Pilgrims have agreed to this request.

Goodwillie, and former Dundee United team-mate David Robertson, were ordered to pay the damages in a civil action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

Mother-of-one Denise Clair sued Goodwillie and Robertson claiming they raped her in West Lothian in January 2011.

In a statement released by his solicitors last week, Goodwillie said: "I have spent the last six years and every penny I have fighting the allegations against me.

"I hoped that the Opinion of Lord Armstrong would allow me finally to draw a line under this and move on with my life. I am devastated by his Opinion.

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"I am struggling to understand why the judge has discounted my evidence and all of the other evidence of those who have said what they saw or heard that morning.

"However, everything that happened that night happened consensually. I would not and did not take advantage of Denise Clair and I did not rape her because she was too drunk to consent."