A jury has begun its deliberations in the trial of two men accused of planning to secretly administer abortion medication to a pregnant woman.

Stuart Worby, 40, and Wayne Finney, 41, are on trial after a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered a miscarriage 15 weeks into her pregnancy in the summer of 2022. 

Prosecutors allege the friends "put their heads together" to get hold of medication to terminate the pregnancy, as Norwich Crown Court has been told. 

The jury has been sent out after being urged to put aside emotion and consider its verdict in a “calm and dispassionate manner”.

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Worby, of Malthouse Court, Dereham, admits unlawfully acquiring two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol. 

These are commonly used together to induce a miscarriage in early pregnancy. However, he denies giving them to the woman.

He also denies two counts of sexual assault, over allegations he inserted one drug into her without her consent.  

Finney, of Station Street, Swaffham, denies intentionally encouraging or assisting in the commission of the offence by acting as a go-between with his girlfriend, who obtained the drugs illegally.