Mistress to pay £390k to lover’s wife and kids as freaky bondage sex kills him

A woman who was participating in a freaky bondage sex game with a man has been ordered to pay a staggering £390k to her dead lover’s wife and kids after the man passed away during the sex session

A mistress in Italy has been ordered to pay £390,000 of compensation to her lover’s wife and children after he suffocated to death during a bondage sex game.

The court decided the family’s full compensation claim was worth around EUR 1.125 million (G£972,000). But the lover was ordered to pay only 40 per cent of it because the 61-year-old victim had been a willing participant in the dangerous sexual practice and was ruled 60 per cent responsible for his own death.

Paramedics from the 118 emergency service were called to the attic flat but were unable to save him. The fatal sex game happened in a loft apartment in Alessandria, a city in Italy’s northwestern Piedmont region, in 2016. The Alessandria civil court has now ordered the lover to pay EUR 450,000 (£390,000) of compensation to the dead man’s wife and three children after a mammoth 10-year legal battle.

The woman had already been convicted in a final criminal ruling of negligent homicide over the death. Judges heard during the criminal case that the pair had regularly practised bondage, which involves tying up or immobilising a consenting partner using ropes, handcuffs or blindfolds.

The original accusation had been reduced from involuntary manslaughter to negligent homicide after judges ruled there had been shared responsibility between the victim and his lover.

The woman was given a one-year prison sentence in the criminal case. But the court left the issue of damages to be decided in a separate civil claim. The civil court in Alessandria has now ruled that the lover was 40 per cent responsible for the death, while the victim was 60 per cent responsible because of his own participation in the sex game.

The judge used that split of responsibility to calculate the final compensation payable to the family. The ruling brings to an end a legal case that has lasted nearly a decade since the fatal incident.

The Daily Star previously reported on the death of an actor who starred in Hollyoaks and Emmerdale who passed away in an “extreme” sex session which including rope and suffocation. The man involved in the incident has been jailed.

Michael Barron was known for starring in both Emmerdale and Hollyoaks during his acting career. The TV star reportedly connected with Josh Baxter, 28, on Grindr and the pair exchanged explicit messages on the platform.

Baxter denied manslaughter, intentional strangulation or suffocation and unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm during a trial in January. The jury found him not guilty of manslaughter but guilty of intentional strangulation or suffocation and unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm.

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