A husband who invited other men to rape and sexually assault his wife arranged for “more and more individuals” to visit his marital home, as he resolved “to satisfy his own perversity”, a jury has been told.
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jury → invite → perversity
The husband, who is in his 60s and from Stockport in Greater Manchester, has pleaded guilty to more than 60 offences against his wife.
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who → plead → wife
He cannot be named in order to protect the anonymity of his victim.
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He → name → victim
Nine men are on trial at Manchester Minshull Street crown court accused of either taking part in the abuse of the victim, or encouraging the offending online, while “hiding behind the screens of their mobile telephones and computers”.
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men → accuse → telephones
One of the “non-contact” alleged offenders, Daniel Rayner, 42, of Whitstable, Kent, repeatedly sought imagery of the abuse of the victim, the court heard.
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court → seek → victim
He told the husband: “Passed out ones are obviously better,” and: “Hope she’s being used tonight.”
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she → tell → husband
The husband had shared imagery of other men, Graham Brougham and Sean Peers, assaulting his wife, and when Rayner asked: “So I guessing she had no idea he had stripped and fucked her,” the husband confirmed she did not.
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she → share → her
Rayner then asked him: “What did you give her …
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you → ask → her
I’ve always used GHB.”
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I → use → GHB
Rayner denies conspiracy to rape, conspiracy to assault by penetration and conspiracy to administer a substance with intent.
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Rayner → deny → intent
Setting out a timeline of the allegations, the prosecutor Louise Oakley KC told the court that by the start of January 2025: “[The husband] doesn’t appear to have had any new year’s resolutions to stop his offending on his wife.”
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husband → set → wife
“If anything, his resolve to satisfy his own perversity continued,” she said. “With arrangements being made for more and more individuals to attend.”
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individuals → satisfy → perversity
Two of the defendants, Philip Wild, 59, and Mohammed Sabir, 28, both from Stockport, had sexually abused the woman one after the other in a single night in early 2025, the court heard.
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court → abuse → 2025
Oakley said Wild was “fully aware” that [the woman] was not conscious and not able to consent to any sexual activity.
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woman → say → activity
“He’d been there before so that was no surprise, and certainly was no deterrent the state he’d seen her in before,” she told the court.
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she → see → court
Wild has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault, attempted rape, assault by penetration and conspiracy to rape.
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Wild → plead → penetration
Oakley told the court that Sabir also “knew before he went into the bedroom” that the victim was not conscious, and “at no point” did he attempt to communicate with her, or seek her consent.
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he → tell → consent
The husband later asked him to write a review on a swingers website, the court heard, and the jury was shown the review, which read: “Really easy to set up a meet.
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which → ask → meet
It was my first [experience] fucking someone’s wife in front of them, so thanks for that.
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It → fuck → that
Sabir denies rape and conspiracy to rape.
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Sabir → deny → rape
In May 2025 the husband made contact with another stranger on the site, the court heard.
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court → make → site
Jordan Wallace, 31, a building supplies employee from Wythenshawe in Manchester, said he was “pissed” and asked the husband to pick him up.
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he → say → him
He wrote: “13 mins if [you] wanna pick me up [and] me [and] [yo]u will get perverted with your wife.”
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yo]u → write → wife
When the husband declined to collect him, he said he would ride his bicycle over to the address.
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he → decline → address
Wallace was “fully aware” the wife was unconscious, and “because of her state of consciousness she was not able to consent to any sexual activity”, Oakley told the court.
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Oakley → consent → court
She said the husband “recalls that at one point Jordan Wallace ‘got rough’ with [his wife] and he had to actually push him away, saying, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ telling him he was going to wake her up”.
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he → say → her
Wallace later apologised but asked the husband to send the videos he had taken, which he did, the court heard.
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court → apologise → which
Wallace has pleaded not guilty to rape and attempted rape.
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Wallace → plead → rape
In June 2025, the husband subjected his wife “to a humiliating, degrading and sustained sexual assault” over the course of three hours, and again invited two men in succession into their home to assault her.
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husband → subject → her
The second man, Alan Keelan, 42, an industrial cleaning firm worker also from Wythenshawe, had climbed on top of the unconscious woman wearing a pair of black women’s knickers and attempted to have sex with her, the court heard.
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court → climb → her
When he was unable to, he sexually assaulted her before climbing off the bed, the court heard.
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court → assault → bed
Keelan denies attempted rape and assault by penetration.
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Keelan → deny → penetration
In July last year, the husband again posted on the swingers website, and made contact with the sheet metal worker Richard Townsend, 38, the court heard.
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court → post → worker
Townsend was aware the woman was not conscious when he proceeded to sexually assault her, assisted by her husband, the jury was told.
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jury → proceed → husband
The woman’s leg moved, and “it was clear she was restless and stirring, so together they decided enough was enough for that night and he left”, the court heard.
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court → move → night
Townsend, of Heywood, Greater Manchester, denies assault by penetration.
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Townsend → deny → penetration
Jonathan Kirk, 43, from Stockport, was described as “more cautious” than the other defendants, and first requested to meet the husband at his own house.
The husband visited Kirk at his house in August and showed him photographs of the woman passed out and being abused by him.
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husband → describe → him
He told Kirk he would consider drugging his wife, and Kirk, a paramedic, told him that “could be very dangerous”, the court heard.
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court → tell → him
Later, Kirk took a taxi to the husband’s house.
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Kirk → take → house
“As a senior paramedic, he cannot have failed to notice she was not conscious.
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she → fail → paramedic
…and 9 more, not listed.
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