Dewani escort’s death a ‘suicide’

THE prostitute specialising in kinky sex who testified in the trial of British businessman Shrien Dewani committed suicide by hanging‚ an inquest has heard.

Leopold Leisser‚ who sold his services as a male escort under the name “The German Master”‚ was 45 when he killed himself.

The inquest heard that he was extremely stressed by the trial and that the publicity had lost him clients‚ forcing him to close down his website‚ the Daily Mail reported.

His body was found by a friend at his flat in Birmingham on September 13‚ the newspaper said‚ reporting that an inquest had now ruled his death to be suicide.

Leisser specialised in sadomasochism and role play, and he testified in Dewani’s trial for the murder of his wife, Anni Dewani‚ on honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010 how Dewani had paid him hundreds of pounds for sadomasochistic sex.

However‚ his testimony was never heard in full after the high court ruled Dewani’s sexual preferences were not relevant to the charge of murder. — TMG Digital