Dominatrix: It was my civic duty to expose ex’s ‘deviant behaviour’
A DOMINATRIX was trying to ‘protect the world’ by launching a campaign of humiliation against a married car salesman who paid for a sordid sex session with her, a court heard yesterday.
Sarah Smith said she was motivated by a ‘civic duty’ to expose the ‘deviant lifestyle’ enjoyed by Jonathan White, whom she described as a ‘dizzy-a****, fake, cardboard cut-out queen’.
She claimed Mr White was having affairs with men, selling his services online and was apparently determined to do ‘everything sexual he could before he died’.
The escort told the court she was left disgusted after finding out the full extent of his obsession with sado-masochistic sex as their relationship eventually broke down.
Her legal team even urged jurors to ignore the more liberal public attitude towards extreme sex, exemplified by the huge popularity of the book Fifty Shades of Grey.
They said people were still entitled to object to immoral acts even though the erotic thriller was made into a hit film.
Smith, 43, of Bristol, is accused of launching a prolonged ‘character assassination’ of Mr White by sending explicit photographs of the businessman to his family and friends.
The pair initially met when Mr White contacted her on a fetish website while he was still married, before they went on to form a casual relationship. But she allegedly became enraged after he attempted to break off the affair.
Smith, who also worked as a carer, allegedly caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to Mr White’s car and sent illicit images of him to his family. One image showed him engaging in a ‘tug of war’ with string tied to his manhood.
Mr White said the alleged harassment nearly led to him suffering a nervous breakdown. Giving evidence yesterday, Smith admitted her behaviour was ‘irrational’ but said she felt she had a responsibility to expose something that is ‘morally wrong’, and insisted she had acted for the right reasons.
She told Salisbury Crown Court: ‘I didn’t do it the right way but I did it for the right reasons. I was trying to protect the world from this man.
‘The Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris cases gave us a civic responsibility to show if something is morally wrong.’
Smith said she unwillingly entered the world of prostitution after being groomed. She met Mr White – who would become her first client – after setting up an account on a sadomasochistic website, believing it would simply involve role-play.
Smith revealed how the businessman answered the door wearing
‘Answered the door in rubber shorts’
rubber shorts on their first meeting, before she was summoned to the ‘playroom’ in his house.
The escort flogged Mr White and poured candle wax on him as he ‘paid worship’ to intimate parts of her body in the purple- coloured room lined with sex toys and props.
Despite the sordid nature of the encounter, Smith described Mr White as ‘a lovely guy and very charming’ and agreed to return on another occasion for dinner without being paid.
But she was left perturbed during the next meeting when she met Mr White’s friend Richard Gilbert, who she claimed was in the three-way relationship, and he inspected her ‘like a horse’. She described how she felt like she was being lured into a ‘Pretty Woman scenario’ as Mr White and Mr Gilbert described the luxurious life led by their previ- ous ‘mistress’, who had since fled. The mother of one defended her decision to contact Mr White’s family members on Facebook when she asked them to help him before he ‘hurts somebody’.
She said: ‘He said he was going to do everything sexual he could before he died. It took me quite a long period to realise this man is not right.’
Describing Smith’s actions, Prosecutor Simon Edwards said: ‘It was the ultimate humiliation, and not one he was meant to enjoy. Our society, perhaps not constrained by the moral sensitivity that existed decades or centuries ago, is becoming increasingly liberal and accepting, and rightly so.’
But Derek Perry, defending Smith, said: ‘The fact that you could walk into a branch of Ann Summers, pick up a bunch of pink handcuffs and no-one would bat an eyelid is remarkable. Such a thing in the past would be abhorrent and immoral. Who’d have thought something like that [Fifty Shades] would be made into a film.’
He said the case was ‘nothing more than a fallout from a relationship’. The trial continues.