Jurors have been shown 'depressingly awful and sordid' videos of a mother being sexually abused in her own home by strangers her husband had recruited online.

The disturbing footage shows Joanne Young bound and drugged as she is violated by 'multiple men' on three separate occasions with her husband Philip Young.

In one video, Ms Young was said to be was 'snoring' and 'evidently asleep' while another shows her saying 'no, let me go' as she is allegedly assaulted.

Young, 50, 'advertised' the mother-of-three on swinging websites for sex without her knowledge presenting his 'offer' as a 'kink' for the couple, the court heard.

The former Tory councillor pleaded guilty to multiple sex offences spanning over a decade against his ex-wife, 49, earlier this year.

Now four men who he invited into their Swindon home are on trial facing charges ranging from rape to sexual touching between 2016 and 2023. 

Richard Wilkins, 62, Norman Macksoni, 48, Mohammed Hassan, 38, and Connor Sanderson-Doyle, 32 all deny the charges against them.

Winchester Crown Court heard Young had filmed three of the four men, who were not known to Ms Young, as they allegedly assaulted his wife. 

The disturbing footage, lasting a total of around 40 minutes, was shown to the jury of eight men and four women, some of whom looked distressed throughout.

In the first video from June 2016, which lasted 10 minutes, the jury could see the youngest defendant Sanderson-Doyle wearing a black balaclava.

He was on the bed with a blindfolded and restrained Ms Young who was heard saying 'ow', to he replied 'Oh sorry, sorry.'

Towards the end of the video Young appeared to ask his wife, 'You ok?', to which Ms Young said: "No, let me go. What are you doing?"

In the second video from July 2016, Wilkins, who had a tattoo on his back, was seen allegedly abusing Ms Young as she can be heard snoring.

The final video from February 2017, which lasted almost 18 minutes, Macksoni was seen allegedly raping Ms Young as she lay immobile. 

The videos were filmed by Young, who can be seen zooming in on the abuse, from the foot of the bed.

The four defendants showed little emotion whilst watching the videos, although Sanderson-Doyle was seen closing his eyes at times. 

Ms Young, a mother-of-three, gave evidence at Winchester Crown Court on Wednesday where she faced the strangers accused of assaulting her.

The court heard how she had locked herself in a bathroom naked after waking to find one of the men - who was later identified as Hassan - in her bedroom.

Ms Young described being left traumatised after her husband admitted he had been on an online forum and 'invited someone round the house to watch us have sex'.

The jury watched Ms Young tearfully recalling the disturbing incident, which did not feature in the video evidence, in a police interview.

She was seen telling an officer: 'I almost didn't believe it was real and was waiting to see what he said first.

'I didn't know what to do with that, or process that or what to do about our relationship.'

Ms Young told police: 'I was obviously, I was really upset, more upset, just upset and shocked someone had been there - it was so intrusive.

'Something that I would never, he knew, he would know, I would never ever accept that or want that.'

Ms Young, the jury heard, was 'emphatically monogamous' and described her sexual preferences as 'vanilla'.

When asked if their relationship was monogamous, she said: 'Monogamous. Always monogamous - physically and emotionally.

'The traditional sense of marriage - it was us two kind of 'til the end.'

The woman said she had complied with her husband's wish to blindfold and restrain her during sex but had never agreed to having sex with anyone else.

Yet, the court heard that she would sometimes wake with the restraints on and wonder how that had happened but had no idea that she might have been abused.

The jury was told that Young had become fixated on his fantasy of watching others abuse the mother of his children and soon began drugging her.

But it was not until the 2023 incident involving Hassan, that Ms Young first became aware that there was something seriously wrong in her marriage.

According to the prosecution, Ms Young woke up blindfolded and restrained to someone, who she believed to be her husband, performing a sex act on her.

But she 'froze' when she was alerted to the presence of a third person in the room after feeling a hand on her arm.

Ms Jones said: 'She said she was trying to take the wristband or the blindfold off… and a hand had intervened to stop her.

'She said: 'I was obviously really shocked because, obviously you don't expect someone else to be in your bedroom. Phil said to the person, "Get down", and the person ducked at the end of the bed.'

The following morning, Young was said to have apologised and admitted he had 'invited someone round the house to watch us have sex' without her permission.

The prosecution said while the incident was not filmed, the man in was identified as Hassan who has been charged with one count of sexual touching.

He was said to have been traced through explicit Grindr messages exchanged with Young.

Ms Jones told jurors the incident was only the first indication of the widespread abuse.

The prosecutor said: 'It turned out of course that she had stumbled upon the edges of a far greater issue in her relationship.

'What she had considered to be already a gross invasion, a betrayal of her trust was far, far more invasive and shocking.'

Ms Jones said the woman was abused by men 'plucked from the internet' -via Grindr, Craigslist and swinging sites - as her husband watched or filmed them.

She added: 'He sought strangers to come and sleep with his wife - any age, any race - but as close to Swindon as possible, so that when the circumstances were right they could be seized upon immediately.

'He presented it as a kink for both of them, but there was no information from Joanne herself to support this.'

The prosecutor told the court that Young had uploaded photos of Ms Young to 'advertise his offer' which showed her 'inanimate and tied to the bed blindfolded'.

Ms Jones said: 'The nightcap they shared, it appeared, would be used to plunge her into a state where anything could be done to her by whoever answered and she would be unaware or unable to remember.'

Jurors were told by Ms Jones that it was not the Crown's case that the defendants had administered the substances to Ms Young but that the 'effects' on her 'were apparent' to them.

Ms Jones told the jury the men were expected to claim they believed Ms Young consented to the sexual activity, but this was a 'last desperate throw of the dice to convince you and perhaps even themselves that they are not rapists or sexual offenders'.

Macksoni, of Bedfordshire, denies rape, while Wilkins, of Swindon, has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault.

Sanderson-Doyle, of Swindon, denies sexual assault and sexual touching, while Hassan, also of Swindon, has pleaded not guilty to sexual touching.

The trial continues.