Lawrence Jones rape trial: Judge tells jury to decide on 'ultimate issue' of whether complainants' are 'truthful and reliable'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA judge has told jurors to decide on the 'ultimate issue' of whether the complainants are 'truthful and reliable' in the trial of UK Fast founder Lawrence Jones.
Mr Jones, 55, denies two offences of rape. Prosecutors allege that the multimillionaire businessman 'stupefied' two young women with drugs and then raped them at his flat in Salford in the 1990s when he was in his 20s.
Mr Jones, of Brooks Drive in Hale Barns, denies two offences of rape and says he never met one of his accusers and says sex he had with a second woman was consensual. READ MORE: "She's just a drama queen": Pint-size gran beat up her 18-stone neighbour AND his wife...
in row over her 42-year-old son READ MORE: Family pay heartbreaking tribute to dad stabbed to death as boy, 16, arrested for his murder One woman, described as Woman A in press reports of the trial, alleges she was raped at a flat in Salford in 1993 after drinking a glass of red wine and taking a couple of 'tokes' of a spliff rolled by Mr Jones.
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