LIVE: Lawrence Jones sentenced for two rapes and sexual assault - latest updates from court as judge addresses shamed businessman

Rapist Lawrence Jones is set to learn his fate at a sentencing hearing. The multimillionaire UKFast founder was found guilty of drugging and raping two women in the 1990s last month, and sexually assaulting another in the early 2010s in January.

Jones, 55, of Brooks Drive, Hale Barns, Trafford, attacked two women while he was a piano player in pubs and hotels in Manchester in his 20s. He denied all wrongdoing at a trial in Manchester Crown Court in November, but was unanimously convicted by jury of two counts of rape.

Jones will also be sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman at a hotel in the early 2010s following an earlier trial. That conviction was only revealed following the outcome of the more recent court proceedings.

Manchester Crown Court previously heard Jones called one woman a 'pr*** tease' before pouncing on her after giving her a glass of red wine and sharing a spliff at his Salford flat in the 1990s. He then said: "So do I have to teach you a lesson [or] are you just gonna let me f*** you?"

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Jones went onto rape another woman at his flat after telling her to sniff from a medicine bottle. The woman said she felt 'helpless' before Jones climbed on top of her.

Jurors heard Jones 'used drugs to facilitate' the rapes. "The manner in which the drugs were administered in each case differs, but the effects were the same - both women were stupefied and left partially conscious but unable to react," prosecutor Eloise Marshall KC said.

At a separate trial in January, the details of which could not be reported at the time due to reporting restrictions, jurors heard Jones sexually