Murder case brings fresh calls to ban 'rough sex' defence

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NSTworld: “Men are now, literally, getting away with murder by using the ‘rough sex’ defence.”

Grace Millane, 22, was visiting New Zealand when she was murdered. Her attacker pleaded not guilty to murder, saying she died accidentally during consensual sex, but a jury rejected his defence and convicted him in November.

“These women are killed in extraordinary and sustained violence – Grace was strangled for between five and 10 minutes,” said the group’s founder Fiona Mackenzie. Under British law, a person cannot consent to being seriously hurt. But the defence offers a potential loophole by arguing the death - often from strangling - was an accident.

“Although the man has to admit that he caused injuries which led to the woman’s death, he claims that it was not his fault, as it was a ‘sex game gone wrong’. She, of course, is not there to say otherwise.”

 

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