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Lawrence Jones' brave victims' final act that helped send him down for 15 years

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In a packed courtroom, a voice quivering with nerves could be heard from behind a screen. "Rape and sexual assault are never, ever about sex, they are only ever about power - something the perpetrator is clearly desperate to feel." It was one of three victims of convicted rapist Lawrence Jones.

Today, December 1, he was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of raping two women and sexually assaulting another. READ MORE: Today's top Manchester Evening News stories READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Jones, 55, attacked two women in the 1990s while he was a piano player in pubs and hotels across the city, after 'stupefying' them with an unknown drug.

Years later, while on a business trip, he prised apart the legs of another young woman and asked to see her underwear, before forcing himself on her.

As families of the three women looked on from the public gallery, they stood together in the witness box behind a screen and sobbed as they detailed the devastating impact his crimes have had on their lives.

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