Sex Slasher: 'I Did It, I'm a Monster'

'I wanted to cut him a bit and it went right in'

(NEWSER) - The niece of Britain's defense minister has been sentenced to 15 years for fatally slashing a man she picked up at a bar for sex. "I do not even dare ask forgiveness from Olivier’s family,’ Jessica Davies told a French court yesterday, referring to her 24-year-old victim. "What I did terrifies me. I will never again touch a drop of alcohol." Investigators believe the murder in a French apartment may have been "inspired" by the gruesome stabbing death of Meredith Kercher in Italy just days earlier. More»

Woman says she 'blacked out' during attack

(NEWSER) - The niece of Britain's defense minister is on trial for slashing a French lover's throat in the midst of a kinky sex game. Jessica Davies, 30, claims she was in a "black out," high on alcohol and anti-depressants during the tragedy, and remembers nothing of the death in a Paris Left Bank apartment. Investigators believed Davies may have been "inspired" by Meredith Kercher's slashing death. Psychiatrists have reported hat Davies was "disturbed" and in an "altered state" when the death occurred, reports the Telegraph . More»

'She liked to be throttled,' he tells cops

(NEWSER) - An unfaithful lover claims he "accidentally" killed his girlfriend who liked to be throttled during sex, a British court was told yesterday. Beauty therapist Kerry Sneddon urged her beau to apply "a bit of pressure" to her throat during sex and they had done it some 7 times although he didn't like it, boyfriend Jason O'Malley, 39, told police. Sneddon's body was found with a ligature around her throat. O'Malley says he doesn't remember how that happened. Prosecutors charge that O'Malley murdered Sneddon during an argument about his other girlfriends, reports the Telegraph. More»

Ian Griffin removed cash from account of murdered lover: cops

(NEWSER) - A British tycoon suspected of fatally beating his wealthy lover with furniture and his fists in a Paris hotel has been found camping in England, reports the Telegraph. Ian Griffin, 39, was tracked down "living rough" in Cheshire, said a police source. He had withdrawn a "large amount" of cash from his lover's account, according to cops. Griffin tried to flee by sea after Polish millionnaire Kinga Legg's battered body was found last week, but he was unable to quickly obtain a boat. More»

(NEWSER) - The tycoon lover of a Polish businesswoman found battered to death in the bathtub of a ritzy Paris hotel claims the woman attacked him with a stun gun before a fatal fight, reports the Times of London. British millionaire Ian Griffin told a former girlfriend that Kinga Legg used a stun gun that was disguised as a lipstick. The two trashed the room in the midst of a deadly row after drinking "copious" amounts of champagne last week in the Bristol, said authorities. More»