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Woman strangled ‘during sex game’

- LUCINDA CAMERON

A KILLER strangled a woman to death while they had sex.

Mark Bruce met 20-yearold Chloe Miazek at a bus stop in the early hours of the morning on November 3 last year – just nine days before she would have turned 21 – after both had left separate nights out in Aberdeen.

Just two hours later she died after the 32-year-old choked her while they had sex at his flat in the city’s Rosemount Viaduct.

Chloe, of Kemnay, Aberdeensh­ire, had been drinking with friends in the city before being thrown out of a nightclub because she was so drunk.

She walked to a bus stop where Bruce, who had also been drinking heavily, arrived just moments after leaving a nearby pub.

They struck up a conversati­on before heading to his flat.

The High Court in Aberdeen was told that the pair had a “shared interest in erotic asphyxatio­n” – and that Chloe had died in seconds after he had seized her neck during sex.

Hours later Bruce was seen on CCTV leaving his flat and wandering the streets for over an hour before walking to Rosemount Police Station where he buzzed an intercom and said: “I’ve done something terrible.”

Advocate depute Jo Mcdonald said an officer asked him to clarify and he said: “I’ve killed someone. There’s a female in my bed.”

Judge Lord Kinclaven deferred sentence until April 5.

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