Wife ‘felt stranger’s hand’ during sex, Philip Young trial told
A woman said she locked herself in a bathroom after realising her then-husband had allowed someone else in the bedroom while she was blindfolded and having sex, a jury has heard.
In a police interview played at Winchester Crown Court, Joanne Young said she was restrained when she felt a hand on her wrist which she believed did not belong to her now ex-husband Philip Young.
Joanne – who has waived her legal right to anonymity – said Young, who has admitted drugging and raping her, later apologised and told her he had invited someone to watch the couple have sex after browsing online forums.
Four men who Young is alleged to have recruited to abuse his wife at their home are now on trial.
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On the second day of the four men’s trial, two police interviews with Joanne were played to the court.
During the first interview, dated 29 July 2024, Joanne said the incident when she hid in the bathroom had happened in February 2023 after a night out with friends.
She told police she could not “remember all of it”, but said Young had come upstairs after she had gone to bed.
Joanne said she “woke up with a blindfold and restraints on” and loosened the restraint on her right hand and then the left. At that point, she said, she felt a hand grip her wrist.
She said Young – who she believed was at the end of the bed – said “get down” to someone as she tried to take her blindfold off.
Joanne said she then saw someone ducking at the end of the bed and she ran to the bathroom and locked the door.
“The bed is a really big bed. So to have someone on the end of the bed and the left was not possible… I knew immediately,” she told police.
