Husband conspired with 13 men to drug and rape his wife, UK court hears

Thirteen men will stand trial in September at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court charged with serious sexual offences against a woman whose husband conspired with them to drug and rape her while she was unconscious, Greater Manchester Police said on Friday.

The husband, who is in his 60s and from Stockport in Greater Manchester, cannot be named in order to protect his wife’s anonymity. He initially denied all 48 counts on the indictment but on Monday changed some of his pleas, admitting...