BBC
Multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur Lawrence Jones has been jailed for 15 years for committing two rapes and a sexual assault.
Jones, 55, former boss of Manchester-based web hosting provider UKFast, was convicted in January of assaulting a female employee.
A second trial found him guilty of drugging and raping two women when he was a hotel bar pianist in the 1990s.
The father-of-four set up UKFast with his wife in September 1999.
Jones, of Hale, Greater Manchester, had already spent 10 months in jail.
A reporting restriction was imposed by a judge at Manchester Crown Court stopping the media from reporting on the first case, so as not to prejudice the jury in his second trial.
The trial heard Jones had left the two women “stupefied and partially conscious” before attacking them.
One woman said she was given something to sniff at his flat which had an “immediate impact” on her, while the other was overly affected by a glass of wine and a few puffs of what she believed was cannabis.
She told police she “felt frozen, as if she were made of lead” as Jones had sex with her so could not fight back. Jones had told her he could do what he wanted to her because no-one knew she was there…
