Georgia’s prime minister claimed the country had been subjected to ‘blackmail and manipulation’ from some of the bloc’s politicians.

In May, employment tribunal judge Sarah Goodman concluded that the women could not bring new equal pay claims.

Paul Dunleavy, 89, is already serving time in prison having been previously convicted on two separate occasions of sexual offences against children.

The musician, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, is accused of raping the woman at a house party following a performance in Oxford.

The collapse follows several years of declining sales, mounting debts and even a break-in at its Wirral factory last year.