Claims extracted
25
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 25 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
5
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Men accused of sexually assaulting a woman whose then husband drugged her for years and allowed her to be abused have described being invited to the couple’s home via online adverts and a swinging website.
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her → accuse → adverts
One of those accused of assaulting Joanne Young, who has waived her legal right to anonymity, as she lay restrained and blindfolded said he was a young man “trying out things” and had no idea she was drugged.
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she → accuse → idea
A second said there was a large “cuckold community” of men who watched their wives having sex, claiming his encounter was “just a sex meet” and she seemed “fine”.
Philip Young, 50, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of drugging and sexually abusing his former wife, 49, at their home in Swindon, Wiltshire, over a number of years.
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Young → say → years
The prosecution has said he advertised his wife online and “loaned” her out to other men.
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he → say → men
Four other men are on trial at Winchester crown court, including Connor Sanderson-Doyle, 32, of Swindon, who denies sexual assault by penetration and sexual touching in June 2016.
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who → include → June
In police interviews read out to the jury, Sanderson-Doyle said he contacted Philip Young via Craigslist after seeing an ad in its adult section for a woman tied and blindfolded.
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he → read → woman
He said he thought he had met a couple “trying to live out whatever their kink is”.
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kink → say → couple
He said he went to the Youngs’ house on his motorcycle.
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he → say → motorcycle
He asked if he should take his shoes off when he arrived, but kept his balaclava on throughout.
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he → ask → balaclava
He saw there were toys in the house so assumed the couple had children.
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couple → see → children
Sanderson-Doyle, then 21, said he found Joanne Young “tied up and blindfolded” as she had been pictured in the online ad.
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she → say → ad
She did not say anything but seemed awake.
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She → say → anything
The defendant said that at one point he heard her say “No” but he thought she wanted him to do something different rather than stop completely.
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him → say → something
Sanderson-Doyle told police he started to get a “vibe she wasn’t enjoying it or was not comfortable” and left soon afterwards.
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she → tell → it
He continued: “I thought I had her consent.
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I → continue → consent
I didn’t know she was drugged,” adding: “I was just a young guy trying out things.”
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I → know → things
He called the encounter a “non event”.
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He → call → encounter
A second man, Norman Macksoni, 48, of Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, denies one count of rape in February 2017.
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man → deny → February
He told police he worked as an MC and went by the username “dark stranger” on the swingers’ site where he made contact with Philip Young.
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he → tell → Young
He said the site was “about couples living out fantasies” and there was a thriving “cuckold community”.
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couples → say → fantasies
Macksoni told police he had never had sex without consent and Joanne Young was “totally coherent”.
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Young → tell → consent
He said: “It was just a sex meet and then I left.”
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I → say → ?
The defendant told officers he did not wear a condom and added: “He specifically said she didn’t like them.”
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she → tell → them
Also on trial are Richard Wilkins, 62, of Toothill, Wiltshire, who has pleaded not guilty to one count of rape and one of assault by penetration, and Mohammed Hassan, 38, of Swindon, who has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual touching.
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who → plead → touching
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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