THE jury has been sent out to consider their verdict in the trial of Darren Pinches.

The jury of six men and six women retired at lunchtime today to decide whether Bushwackers and Browns at the Quay owner Pinches is guilty of charges relating to drugs and a sexual assault.

Pinches, aged 52, denies the five counts against him.

He stands accused of administering cocaine to a then 20-year-old woman with intent to stupefy or overpower her before sexually assaulting her in a Bushwackers storeroom on New Year’s Day last year.

The Bromyard Road, Worcester resident is also accused of supplying cocaine to a then 19-year-old woman in the Crypt at Bushwackers and again at an apartment at the Quay during the Worcester floods between February 9 and 15, 2016.

A third woman, then aged 40, alleges Pinches offered her cocaine in a room at Browns at the Quay between September 10 and 13, 2015.

Judge Anthony Potter told the jury that they would have to elect a foreman before returning with any verdicts.

If the jury does not reach unanimous verdicts today the case will be adjourned until Monday of next week as one of the jurors has told the court she has a commitment tomorrow.

The judge had spent the morning summing up the evidence in the case which has been heard at Warwick Crown Court, sitting at the Warwickshire Justice Centre in Leamington Spa, since Friday, November 9.

The trial continues.