Morbid Fact Du Jour For October 13, 2010

Today’s Misadventurous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

A businessman died after he was strangled by his own S&M collar during a role-playing bondage game that went wrong. Lionel Webster, from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, was found by paramedics on October 26, 2009 slumped on the floor of a garage at the home of pensioners Colin Richardson, 74, and his dominatrix wife Anne, 68. Mr Webster, 61, was found shackled to a wooden frame by several chains – one of which was around his genitals. He was wearing a Guantanamo Bay-style boiler suit, knee-high stiletto boots and a blindfold. At an inquest Mrs Richardson explained Mr Webster had been tied up, blindfolded and told to wear a balaclava. She said he had been asked to be treated like a military prisoner that had gone AWOL and needed to be punished. She told the inquest she was attempting to stimulate the businessman with an electrical device but was getting no response. He suddenly then made a noise and jumped but claimed he was fine and she carried on. However, after making the noise a second time he slumped over and passed out. Mrs Richardson said she called her husband Colin to help lift Mr Webster off his chains, but he was too heavy and when first paramedics arrived he was found partially suspended and with no pulse. Attempts to resuscitate the father-of-two were are said to have been thwarted by the massive collar he had locked himself before hiding the key in his boiler suit. Mrs Richardson, who claimed to have provided services for Mr Webster for three years, told coroner Ian Smith: ‘I’m very sorry, he was a friend and I never wanted that to happen.’ The couple were originally arrested on suspicion of murder at the time of the incident but prosecutors later dropped the case as there were no signs of gross negligence or assault. Mr Webster’s family did not attend the inquest during which Mr Smith delivered a verdict of misadventure.

Culled from: The Daily Mail
Generously submitted by: Aimee