A wife raped by her husband and a string of other men was found with a ‘potentially fatal’ cocktail of drugs including morphine and ketamine in her system, a court heard today.
The woman believed the only tablets she took regularly were multivitamins and medication prescribed by her GP for high blood pressure, cholesterol and heartburn, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court was told.
But, after her husband’s arrest in October 2025, she gave a hair sample for testing which revealed she had secretly received a ‘cocktail of stupefying drugs’, jurors heard.
They included morphine and ketamine plus tranquilisers and sedatives.
Combined with alcohol, the
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