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Woman woke up to see stranger invited into bedroom by husband, court hears

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A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by men invited by her ex-husband into their family home described how she would wake in the middle of the night restrained and blindfolded and feeling “hazy”.

Joanne Young said that on one occasion she managed to remove her blindfold and was shocked to glimpse a stranger in her bedroom whom her then husband, Philip Young, had allegedly arranged to have sex with her.

On another occasion she came around feeling “terrified”, with her husband asking her: “Wouldn’t you like it if somebody else was here?”

Philip Young, 50, “advertised” Joanne Young on dating and swinging websites, presenting it as a “kink” for both of them, Winchester crown court has heard.

He has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of abuse, but four men who allegedly sexually assaulted Joanne Young, having been invited into the couple’s home by Philip Young, are on trial.

Recorded video interviews of Joanne Young, 49, telling her story to the police were watched by the jury on Wednesday.

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