A 65-year-old man who ‘date-raped’ an air stewardess he met on a dating website has been jailed for nine years.

Former finance director, John Campbell, from Gerrards Cross, was sentenced at Amersham Crown Court today after being found guilty of rape last month.

During the trial, jurors heard he spiked the woman's drink with party drug ecstasy in the back garden at his home after meeting through the website millionairematch.com - before having sex with her.

Campbell, who lives in Upper Meadow, had spiked the woman's glass of wine during a rendezvous in the back garden of his Buckinghamshire home on June 14 last year, the court heard.

The air stewardess had struck up a relationship with Campbell after meeting him online but later told police she "lost" several hours through having memory blackouts and being violently sick after having the drug secretly dropped in her drink.

The pair had been involved in a consensual sexual relationship for some six months before the attack.

He was found guilty on November 25 and was today sentenced for nine years for one count of rape and for five years for administering a substance with intent to overpower or allow sexual activity.

The jail terms will be served concurrently.

He was acquitted of a further count of rape.