Woman killed lover with saw during sex game

By in Berlin A GERMAN woman has been charged with murdering her lover with an electric circular saw during a sex game.

The 32-year-old woman, named only as Gabrielle P under German privacy laws, is accused of killing her boyfriend, 28, while he was tied to the bed and blindfolded with goggles blacked out with masking tape.

After killing him by holding the running saw to his chest, prosecutors allege, she used the tool to cut off the head of her victim, who has been named as Alex H in the German press.

Gabrielle P admits the killing but her defence lawyers plan to argue it was an unpremeditated act of desperation.

She had been driven to despair after Alex H forced her to take part in degrading sex games, they told the court in Munich. Although the killing took place in 2008, when Gabrielle P was 23, it was not discovered until February last year, when Alex H’s dismembered body was found buried in the garden of the house where they lived in Munich.

Gabrielle P and Alex H met when she was 16, the court was told. After she turned 18, they moved into the house together, but their relationship was tempestuous.

“He was two different people,” Gabrielle H told the court. “The one I fell in love with was cultured and funny.”

But Alex H had another side, she claimed. Her lawyers plan to present a diary in which they say she kept a record of degrading sex practices in which he forced her to take part. In December 2008 the couple had a major row and she told him to leave the house, the court was told. They later made up and she allowed him to return.

Prosecutors allege that she was only making a show of reconciliation and had already decided to kill him.

Gabrielle P allegedly used the saw to remove his head and covered his body with a sheet where it lay for six months. It was not until she brought a new lover, Christian K, to the house that the remains were discovered.

Instead of alerting the authorities, Christian K helped her bury the dismembered corpse in the garden of the house. He has already been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail for hiding the body in a separate trial.