Dean Hamilton pleads guilty of rape of Joanne Young, former wife of ex-Tory Swindon councillor Philip Young

A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman who was also raped and drugged by her husband for years, police have said.

Dean Hamilton, 47, appeared at Winchester crown court on Friday, where he admitted one count of rape, one count of assault by penetration and two counts of sexual assault against Joanne Young, 48, who can be named as she has waived her right to anonymity.

Hamilton, of Compton Dundon in Somerset, was granted conditional bail and would be sentenced at a later date, Wiltshire police said in a statement.

Last month, Philip Young, 49, a former Tory councillor, pleaded guilty to nearly 50 offences of drugging, raping and sexually assaulting his former wife.