DUNGEONS AND STARS IN THE I arrived in London at 14 to be a Vogue model... in a week a boy was dead on our sofa

knew the circles its models moved in. Patience revealed: “At one party I met a tiny little slip of a thing, let’s call her Jane. She was the only other person who wasn’t spaced out so we got chatting.

“She worked in Soho as an exotic dancer but also had a sideline as a dominatrix with a couple of rooms above a sex shop.

“After two years in London I wasn’t overly shocked although she was tiny and flat chested.

Whips

Trying not to laugh, I followed him into an immaculately clean and tidy living room where a display cabinet full of an impressive collection of whips and paddles caught my eye.

“He said she’d be with me shortly through the sounds of whacks and low cries from the room she was in.”

Patience accepted Jane’s offer of sitting in on a session in a room with a large four-poster bed. She sat on a well-padded chaise longue and was assured she’d not have to do anything.

Patience said: “I was decked out in a suitable outfit. It was like something out of a Victorian peepshow. According to Jane this guy was a junior Cabinet Minister at the time – thankfully I can’t remember his name. He stripped to his shirt and socks and bent over a padded bench. I was just 16 and witnessing Jane beating him with a variety of whips and paddles, at one stage drawing blood. “After five minutes it seemed to be all over and he handed her a big roll of notes.” But even clean-living Patience could not mix with such a wild set and avoid falling foul of the law. She was arrested at a druggy party she was attending with the daughter of an MP. Patience said: “The police were called and carted everyone off to the station. I was mortified but everyone else seemed to think it was a great hoot and were car- rying on with the party both in the police vans and later at the station.” Police quickly realised she was the only stone-cold sober person there.

Patience now lives in Holywood, Co Down, with retired bank manager husband Ivor, 86.

After modelling she became a qualified psychotherapist and has also worked as a dog trainer, a fashion events co-ordinator, a dance teacher and a yoga instructor.

She smiles when she looks back at her earlier life and said: “I can hardly believe it was me.

“I was going to the biggest parties of the day and seeing celebrities that most people only saw in movies, on the TV or in newspapers and magazines. It was magical.”