LIVE: Lawrence Jones' rape trial day four updates as court to hear from second alleged victim

UKFast founder Lawrence Jones is on trial for the fourth day today (Friday) over allegations he drugged and raped two young women at his flat in Salford in the 1990s.

The 55-year-old entrepreneur is alleged to have 'stupefied' the women with unknown drugs before raping them on separate occasions. Mr Jones, of Brooks Drive in Hale Barns, denies two counts of rape.

Mr Jones is standing trial at Manchester Crown Court. The first rape count alleges he had sex with a woman in late 1993 knowing she did not consent or being reckless as to whether she consented.

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The second rape count alleges he had sex with another woman between a date in 1993 and another in 1994 knowing she did not consent or being reckless as to whether she consented.

Yesterday, Thursday, the police video interview with Woman B was played to the court in which she said there was ‘no kissing and no foreplay’ and that the alleged rape lasted no more than 30 seconds. She said that after the alleged incident, Mr Jones 'disposed of me'.

The defendant played the piano in hotels in Manchester at the time but went on to found tech firm UKFast, Manchester Crown Court has heard.

Today, the rest of the police interview with Woman B is to be played to the court, before it is expected she will be cross examined by Mr Jones' defence counsel, Eleanor Laws KC.

She said before the alleged rape they 'used to get on better'. "We never went out drinking together or dining together," she said. She said she remembered him being a 'big pot head', smoking a 'lot of weed'.

She said after the incident she was 'really out