Boss ‘lied about kinky sex to cover up killing’
A WEALTHY company boss killed his girlfriend then blamed her injuries on a drink and drug-fuelled kinky sex session, a court heard.
John Broadhurst, 40, claims he found his lover Natalie Connolly, 26, lying at the bottom of the stairs.
But the prosecution says he “lost it” after finding out the mother of one was cheating on him and savagely beat her.
Birmingham Crown Court heard that in December 2016 the couple returned home from a football match in the businessman’s chauffeur-driven Range Rover and carried on drinking and taking cocaine.
Desires
David Mason QC told jurors: “Natalie indicated she wanted to have sex and she wanted masochistic sex.”
The court heard that Broadhurst told police that during the sex session he momentarily went into a bedroom alone and emerged to find her lying injured at the bottom of the stairs.
But he claimed he was unable to carry her because he has a “metal leg” and left her where she was.
The next morning he said he found her dead, naked apart from a black skirt hitched up over her waist, at his home in Kinver, Staffs. The property developer told police about the rough sex but “said he had not intended to hurt her at all, save within the boundaries of her masochistic desires”, said Mr Mason.
However, Natalie, almost five times the drink-drive limit when she died, had suffered 40 separate injuries, including wounds to her head, buttocks, breasts and private parts.
The prosecution alleges Broadhurst killed her after suspecting her of being unfaithful.
She and the property developer were due to go to Dubai for Christmas but she was to leave a day earlier and had arranged to meet another man before Broadhurst arrived.
Mr Mason asked the jury: “Is it the case, as we suggest, that he has totally lost it with her that night?”
He suggested Broadhurst was extremely violent towards her but “lied about it afterwards to cover his tracks” and used Natalie’s enjoyment of “certain masochistic behaviour” to explain what had happened.
Broadhurst denies murder and grievous bodily harm.
The trial continues.