updated 19 November 2019
We’ve searched news and court archives to find UK cases of people dying in sexual violence that - it is claimed - they consented to.
You might think that women and men would die in “sex” gone wrong at around the same rates - and that men and women would be accused in their deaths.
This is what we’ve found on UK homicide cases:
Who claims "Sex games gone Wrong"?
In cases of injury which have made it to court, the injuries range from bruising through to life-changing, debilitating injuries. In all but one of these cases the victim is female, with a male accused of assaulting them. The one other case is a man who injured his male partner.
NEXT: Read the stories of the women and girls killed in claimed consensual violence.