2011, Bournemouth

Julie was a teaching assistant. Julie's ex partner killed her. Alan Pickersgill claimed she'd throttled herself in a bondage sex game gone wrong. He became "dangerously obsessed" with her after she ended the relationship - including installing a tracking device in Julie’s car.

Murder, life, min term 19 years

2001, Wiltshire 

Gill is killed by her partner Darren Maslen, at their home in Market Lavington.  He told the "court that she died after a kinky sex session went disastrously wrong".  He claimed in court that they enjoyed regular "rough sex" sessions.

Gill had extensive injuries to her face, head and "pelvic area and internal organs required a significant degree of force and the use of a blunt instrument or instruments, or a fist. It was the shock and blood loss arising from these injuries that were the main cause of her death."  Maslen had also used a stun gun to incapacitate her.

Gill had taken high dose of ecstacy and a possibly lethal dose of a sedative dothiepin.  The court heard that she did not take drugs, and that she'd suspected that her partner had been drugging her previously.

Maslen had fully inserted a bottle of liqueur into Gill's vagina, and a vibrator in her anus, he claimed all at her request. Her "vagina had been ripped open all the way up and the cervix at the bottom of the uterus was extensively bruised.  Her anus had been torn apart".  She bled for many hours on the living room floor and he made no attempt to seek help.  He did attempt to clean up the bloodstained bottles and carpet, as she was dying or dead.

In sentencing, the judge took account of the lack of intent to kill Gill.

Murder, life, min term 18 years