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Jurors trying millionaire businessman Lawrence Jones - who denies two charges of rape - were asked to consider whether it was likely his two accusers would 'hit upon the same lie'.
The 55-year-old, of Brooks Drive in Hale Barns, denies two counts of rape. The prosecution allege he 'stupefied' two young women with unknown drugs and then raped them on separate occasions in a flat in Salford in the early 1990s. Mr Jones says he never met one of his accusers and says sex he had with a second women 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.
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On the eighth day of the trial at Manchester Crown Court, prosecutor Eloise Marshall KC began her closing address to the jury.
She said: "Make no mistake, there's no great mystery as to how you decide whether or not you are sure (of guilt). You use your collective experience of the world. You use it to reach common sense conclusions."
The lawyer said that if a woman is drugged they are 'not in a fit state to consent' and 'that ladies and gentlemen is rape'.
Miss Marshall told jurors that if they decide the women are telling the truth then 'Mr Jones is lying'. She questioned what woman would come up with a 'circus of lies' 30
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Jurors in the trial of Lawrence Jones, who denies two charges of rape, have been urged to ‘not make assumptions’. The 55-year-old, former founder of tech company UK Fast 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.
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A woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by UKFast founder Lawrence Jones told a jury she felt ‘helpless’ and ‘really out of it’ following the alleged incident. Giving evidence at his trial, the woman - referred to in press reports as Woman B - strongly denied being attracted to Mr Jones and disagreed with suggestions they had a consensual sexual relationship.