Who claims "sex games gone wrong"

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"?

There are 59 UK women and 7 men who've died in what the person accused claims is sex "gone wrong". All accused in these deaths are male. Does not include people who are reported to have killed themselves - in the UK all cases we've found are men. #WeCantConsentToThis

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.