Husband ‘drugged and blindfolded wife and invited men to abuse her’

Multiple men are on trial for the offences (Picture: PA)

A husband drugged his unsuspecting wife and advertised her online to live out a fantasy of seeing her raped and sexually assaulted by strangers for 13 years, a court has heard.

Philip Young, 50, used pictures taken without his former partner Joanne’s knowledge in ads on swinging sites, Grindr, and Craigslist, a jury was told.

The court heard he ‘set about finding a way to realise his fantasy without her knowing’ as the idea became ‘fixed in his brain ’, prosecutor Sarah Jones said.

Ms Young, 49 – who has waived her right to anonymity – said she had ‘vanilla’ sexual tastes, and was ‘always monogamous… physically and emotionally… a traditional sense of marriage… it was us two, kind of, till the end,’ M...