Manchester<\/a> Minshull Street Crown Court along with 12 other men, aged between 28 and 73, who also cannot be identified.<\/p>\nAll are charged with conspiracy offences, and all but two are alleged to have also committed so-called contact sexual offences.<\/p>\n
A man in his 50s pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to rape, conspiracy to assault by penetration, conspiracy to administer a substance and assault by penetration.<\/p>\n
Five of the men are yet to enter pleas, while a total of seven, including the husband, denied the charges.<\/p>\n
He is charged with 23 counts relating to offences committed on his own – including some multiple incident counts – eight conspiracy offences and 17 attacks allegedly committed with other men.<\/p>\n
The charges include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Four counts of conspiracy to rape.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Three counts of conspiracy to commit sexual assault by penetration.<\/p>\n
\u2022 One count of conspiracy administer a substance with intent to overpower to allow sexual activity.<\/p>\n
\u2022 18 counts of rape.<\/p>\n
\u2022 13 counts of sexual assault by penetration.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Seven counts of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
\u2022 One count of administering a substance with intent to stupefy or overpower to allow sexual activity.<\/p>\n
\u2022 One count of sharing photographs or films of person in intimate state for purpose of sexual gratification.<\/p>\n
Appearing by video-link from Forest Bank prison, the clerk took 23 minutes to read out the 18-page indictment as the man pleaded not guilty to each count.<\/p>\n
Family members of the alleged victim and the defendants sat in the public gallery.<\/p>\n
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Five of his co-defendants appeared alongside him, while another five, who are on bail, appeared in the dock, and two others appeared from different prisons.<\/p>\n
Another hearing is set for next month, while a 12-week trial has been listed to start on 1 September this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has appeared in court to deny drugging his wife to rape and sexually assault her along…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-436540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}