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Lawrence Jones, 55, is alleged to have ‘stupefied’ two young women with unknown drugs before raping them on separate occasions at a flat in Salford in the early 1990s.
The former founder of tech company UK Fast, of Brooks Drive in Hale Barns, denies two offences of rape and says he never met one of his accusers and says sex he had with a second woman was consensual.
One woman, described as Woman A in press reports of the trial, alleges she was raped at a flat in Salford in 1993 after drinking a glass of red wine and taking a couple of ‘tokes’ of a spliff rolled by the defendant.
The second woman, Woman B, says she was urged to take a sniff from a medicine bottle containing a clear liquid. She says she instantly felt ‘really really drunk’ and was raped.
On the ninth day of the trial yesterday at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Jones’ barrister Eleanor Laws KC gave her closing speech to the jury.
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