The other defendants in the case are alleged to have sexually abused her since September 2018. <\/p>\n
A 14th man has also pleaded guilty to sexual offences against the woman. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning the court heard that when the jurors were sworn in on 4 September they were given a questionnaire which included a short summary of the prosecution case. <\/p>\n
Trial judge Maurice Greene told them: “You were told, amongst other things, that the prosecution case concerns allegations of sexual offences by a number of men on a female.<\/p>\n
“You were told 14 men had been identified and one was [her husband]. <\/p>\n
“No doubt you will be wondering why you have not been back since.<\/p>\n
“Some of you may have seen or heard on the news on Monday that a man from Stockport had pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his wife, and had admitted multiple offences including rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and administering a substance with intent. <\/p>\n
“Now his identity is prohibited in the public domain to protect [his wife’s] identity. Logical and obvious you may think. <\/p>\n
“Of course the man who pleaded guilty was [the husband], so he will no longer be a defendant in this case. As a result of these pleas there is work to be done by parties in this case.”<\/p>\n
The other accused men are:<\/p>\n
Philip Wild, 58, from Stockport<\/p>\n
Sean Peers, 38, from Stockport<\/p>\n
Jordan Wallace, 31, from Manchester<\/p>\n
Alan Keelan, 42, from Manchester<\/p>\n
Jonathan Kirk, 43, from Stockport<\/p>\n
Robert Stewart, 70, from Stockport<\/p>\n
Mohammed Sabir, 28, of no fixed abode<\/p>\n
Graham Brougham, 74, from Northwich, Cheshire<\/p>\n
Richard Townsend, 37, from Rochdale<\/p>\n
Karl Lindsay, 55, Taunton, Somerset<\/p>\n
Daniel Rayner, 42, from, Whitstable, Kent<\/p>\n
David Graves, 59, from, Ilkeston, Derbyshire<\/p>\n
Judge Greene told the jury he expected the prosecution to open the case on 5 October and that the trial should be completed by 18 December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The other defendants in the case are alleged to have sexually abused her since September 2018. A 14th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772541","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=772541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}