Wife ran after husband Philip Young ‘brought someone into bedroom’, court told

A woman said she ran into and 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 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 earlier, two police interviews with Joanne were played to the court.

During the first interview, dated 29 July 2024, Joanne said the incident had happened after a night out with friends when they had a few drinks in February 2023.

She told police she could not “remember all of it”, but said Young had come upstairs at some point after she had gone to bed to sleep.

She said she later “woke up with a blindfold and restraints on”.

Joanne told the officer in the interview she loosened the restraint on her right hand as she was waking up, and then the restraint on her left hand.

At that point, she said, she felt a hand grip her wrist and as she tried to take her blindfold off Young, who she believed was at the end of the bed, said “get down” to someone.