2017, Aberdeen

Chloe, a student, had been drinking in Aberdeen city centre with friends, and had been thrown out of a nightclub as door staff thought she was too drunk. While waiting at a bus stop, Mark Bruce, 32, approached her and within 2 hours had strangled Chloe to death at his flat.

He claimed it was an accident, although he accepted that he did not get consent from Chloe to choke her. He did not seek medical help for her. The court heard evidence from her previous boyfriend that she’d talked about ‘breath play’, to support the defence’s case that she’d consented. The defence team said Chloe had "somewhat lost her way" and was "experimenting...with drink, drugs and sexual practices”.

Chloe’s father says the sex gone wrong defence was part of an “agreed narrative” between prosecutors and defence as to what happened that night. Her dad said:

“"They used quite a long time to implicate Chloe”

“And that was when all the headlines hit the tabloids. We had to sit through that and listen to that about our little girl."

The man who killed Chloe denied murder and was allowed to plead guilty to culpable homicide - the Scottish equivalent of manslaughter.

In his sentencing hearing, his defence team admitted "there was no conversation between himself and Ms Miazek about violence during sex, there was no discussion and that at no point would she have expected such", and that he had previously strangled a partner in sex.

Culpable Homicide, 6 years

2017, Edinburgh

Hannah Dorans is strangled by her ex-boyfriend Frazer Neil (25) - with his defence being "Fifty Shades of Grey sex game wrong". The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Hannah had finished the four-year relationship just two weeks before but Neil could not accept she had another partner. He lured her to the flat in February 2017 and sexually assaulted her before strangling her with a cord.

​Murder, life, min term 19 years

2009, West Lothian

Carol is killed by her husband Harry Jarvis, by "means unknown" . He is reported to have told police that she died in a "sex game gone wrong", and claimed in court that Carol had died after she had asked him to strangle her. He and Ruth Hester, with whom he was having a relationship, were charged with murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.  Ruth was found guilty only of defeating the ends of justice.

Murder, life, min term 15 years

2000, Aberdeenshire

Mandy, whose married name was Mandy McDonald, was killed by her husband Niall McDonald, 35.

He claimed that Mandy had died when a sex act went wrong. Defending, Donald Finlay QC said that the incident which led to the death of Mrs McDonald was a "private matter" and that this was sex that "narrow-minded people would call kinky".  Mandy - who was 4ft 10 - was found 6 days after her death where her husband had hidden her body, in woods nearby.  She had suffered injuries to her face, neck, external lacerations to her genitals and her bowel was perforated through her anus.  She died of severe rectal injuries and asphyxia.

Her husband was financially and emotionally abusive to her before her death.  He was also convicted of defeating the ends of justice.

Culpable Homicide, 4 years

1982, Co. Durham

Dorothy was from Easterhouse in Glasgow, and met the man who killed her by responding to a lonely hearts ad. Vincent Mulholland, then 27, was in Rampton secure hospital when he placed the advert. He had been in Rampton since chloroforming and attempting to rape a woman on a train in Germany. He - according to evidence given - killed Dorothy in a “kinky sex session” by tying “tights round her neck during lovemaking”. Although found not guilty of murder, he was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. As part of this sentence, Mulholland was a reserved patient of the secure hospital - who could not be released without the permission of the Home Secretary.

Manslaughter, diminished responsibility, 12 years