A court sketch of nine men sitting in a dock inside a courtroom. Defendants: Back row L-R: Alan Keelan, prison staff, Richard Townsend and Jonathan Kirk. Front row L-R: Philip Wild, Daniel Rayner, Mohammed Sabir, prison staff and Jordan Wallace.Image source, Nick Lewis/ BBC
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Nine men are on trial accused of abusing an unconscious woman at the invitation of her husband

ByJonny HumphriesNorth West, Reporting fromManchester Minshull Street Crown Court
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A woman who believed she had not had sex for nine years had in fact been regularly drugged and raped by her own husband and a group of strangers "whose depravity knew no bounds", a jury has been told.

Her husband led a "double life", prosecutors said, regularly giving his wife a "stupefying cocktail" of drugs to make her "completely unaware" of the abuse.