A company director from Gerrards Cross who met a woman on the dating website uk.millionairematch.com later slipped drugs into a glass of wine before date-raping her, a jury heard this week.

The air-stewardess struck up a relationship with 65-year-old John Campbell after meeting him online but later became the victim of non-consensual sex.

The jury heard that after Campbell started dating the airstewardess he took her out for drinks and food regularly and the couple engaged in a healthy consensual sexual relationship for six months.

Campbell appeared before Judge Karen Holt at Amersham Crown Court on Wednesday charged with two counts of rape and one count of administering a substance with intent to overpower or allow sexual activity after allegedly spiking the woman’s wine during a rendezvous in his back garden on June 14, 2014.

Prosecutor Alisdair Smith said: “The prosecution argue that he gave her MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, without her knowledge and, whilst she was stupified by the drug, he had sex with her without consent.

“Because she was not used to the drug it made her violently sick. This made her realise something was wrong. If she had her ability to consent to sex taken away from her by the drug then having sex in these circumstances is rape,” Smith argued.

The court heard that in her initial police interview on June 18, the woman could not recall having sexual intercourse with Campbell but there had been around a three-hour period which she could not remember.

But after piecing the night back together with flashbacks the woman told police she remembered her head being pushed down on Campbell’s penis in what the prosecution branded “non-consensual oral sex”.

Mr Smith said: “There is no dispute from Campbell that he had vaginal sex with her as well.” Police took a hair sample from the woman and found MDMA had been in her system around the time of the alleged incident.

When the woman took to the witness box she burst into tears as she described the haunting feelings of “paranoia” and depression she felt the following morning as the effects of the drugs began to wear off.

Nicola Cafferkey, defending Campbell, suggested to the woman that she remembers far more of the night than she had let on and that the pair had vaginal sex that night.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said that was not true, and as far as she could remember the pair did not have sex. Campbell, of Upper Meadow, denied all charges.

The trial continues.