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Divorcee had 'no choice' but to kill her depraved lover
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 05/08/2002 | Paul Stokes

Posted on 05/07/2002 5:43:36 PM PDT by dighton

A DIVORCEE claimed yesterday that she had "no choice" but to kill her wealthy lover who had seduced her into a world of depraved sex.

Janet Charlton, 36, rained 20 blows down on the head, neck and shoulders of Daniel O'Brien with a double-handed axe, Leeds Crown Court has been told.

She denies murdering Mr O'Brien, 41, a businessman, during an afternoon sex session at his home, on the grounds of self defence and provocation.

Asked by her counsel, Robert Smith QC, why she had killed him, Charlton replied: "I had no choice, there was no way that my daughter was going to be harmed in any way or killed and no way that I was either. I had no choice."

She and her three-year-old daughter, Amy, moved in with Mr O'Brien at his home in Midgley, near Wakefield, West Yorks, within a month of meeting him.

He had contacted her after she joined an internet escort agency to earn money after the break-up of her marriage.

Charlton, a former telesales manager, had sex with three of her four previous clients and was paid £50 an hour for her services.

Charlton, who sold her home in Golcar, near Huddersfield, to be with Mr O'Brien, said: "I had never been with anyone before who had wanted to be with me so much.

"Initially it was a fantastic feeling. It was nice to feel I had someone who was besotted with me and made me feel really special."

She told the court that problems arose through his possessiveness towards her and particularly about the way the house was kept and his food was served.

On one occasion, she said, he threw a plate at her because she had served him ham and scrambled egg on the same plate. Charlton claimed he also hit her because she had produced only meat and bread on New Year's Eve.

But she said it was his appetite for bizarre sex, which including making her have sex with other men, that put a strain on the relationship two months after it began.

Charlton broke down in tears in the witness box as she related an incident at a sex club.

She said: "He thought we needed a good night out and if I would go to the club it proved I wanted to make him happy. We went into one of the rooms and a lot of men had sex with me. He was directing the men that were there.

"It was awful, it was just like I was a piece of meat. I was cross with myself for going in the first place. I couldn't believe I had been so stupid. I said I would never go again and I never did."

The prosecution has claimed that Charlton murdered Mr O'Brien in May last year because he was about to end their relationship.

Mr O'Brien was found face-down on the floor, blindfolded, with plastic handcuffs on each wrist, gagged by a rubber ball attached to a leather collar around his neck.

The axe was embedded in his skull, with a black and silver leopardskin-effect suspender belt draped over it and a pair of white, fishnet stockings.

A leather bullwhip was on the bed nearby and a pathologist found whip marks on his back.

The trial continues.


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To: PokeyJoe
Tanned and Ibiza toasted. Works great when you are blonde (even a fake one) in your twenties but wears out about age 34.
21 posted on 05/07/2002 6:10:51 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dighton
Mr O'Brien was found face-down on the floor, blindfolded, with plastic handcuffs on each wrist, gagged by a rubber ball attached to a leather collar around his neck.

Blindfold, handcuffs, gag, collar, double-handed hatchet... hmmm.........

22 posted on 05/07/2002 6:10:57 PM PDT by Cachelot
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To: dighton
This dame makes Brenda VD seem so normal.
23 posted on 05/07/2002 6:10:59 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: dighton
More hack journalism from the Telegraph.
24 posted on 05/07/2002 6:11:04 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: dighton
She and her three-year-old daughter, Amy, moved in with Mr O'Brien at his home in Midgley, near Wakefield, West Yorks, within a month of meeting him.

If anyone EVER needs a definition for IDIOT, there it is!

25 posted on 05/07/2002 6:12:04 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: steve-b
She was just confused. She thought he said he was into sado-maxechism.
26 posted on 05/07/2002 6:12:39 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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To: dighton
blindfolded, with plastic handcuffs on each wrist, gagged by a rubber ball attached to a leather collar around his neck.

Note to self: Return blindfold, plastic cuffs, rubber ball and leather collar to place of purchase.

27 posted on 05/07/2002 6:15:22 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Poohbah
Yup. That self-defense plea going to really work...is her attorney Edgar Steele, by any chance?

snicker...snicker...snicker...snork....

Good one, Poobah :-))

28 posted on 05/07/2002 6:20:45 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: dighton
"It was nice to feel I had someone who was besotted with me"

Well, there's your problem right there.

29 posted on 05/07/2002 6:28:08 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: PokeyJoe

30 posted on 05/07/2002 6:28:28 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Larry Lucido
Note to self: Return blindfold, plastic cuffs, rubber ball and leather collar to place of purchase.

Other note to self: Return double handed axe to Home Depot.

31 posted on 05/07/2002 6:28:34 PM PDT by meyer
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To: PokeyJoe
"so, any pictures of the Ham&Egg Plate?"

Do you like
green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.

Would you like them
here or there?

I would not like them
here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.

I do not like
green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?
I do not like them
in a house.
I do not like them
with a mouse.
I do not like them
here or there.
I do not like them
anywhere.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.
I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.

Would you eat them
in a box?
Would you eat them
with a fox?

Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I would not eat them
here or there.
I would not eat them anywhere.
I would not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

32 posted on 05/07/2002 6:43:24 PM PDT by boris
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To: Larry Lucido
Note to self: Return blindfold, plastic cuffs, rubber ball and leather collar to place of purchase.

(sweet innocent cashier voice) I'm sorry but you will need a receipt and proper identification to make that return. (/sweet innocent cashier voice)

33 posted on 05/07/2002 6:50:04 PM PDT by Gabz
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To: meyer
Other note to self: Return double handed axe to Home Depot.

(sweet innocent cashier voice) I'll need a receipt and proper identification for the return of that item. (/sweet innocent cashier voice)

34 posted on 05/07/2002 6:52:18 PM PDT by Gabz
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To: Cachelot
... double-handed hatchet ... hmmm.........

Hmmm indeed.

A sound weapon, but my mob is more stealthy about it.

35 posted on 05/07/2002 6:53:27 PM PDT by dighton
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To: boris
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

and all this time I thought you were boris.

Oh, silly me!!!!!!!!

36 posted on 05/07/2002 6:53:53 PM PDT by Gabz
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To: Poohbah
That self-defense plea going to really work...is her attorney Edgar Steele, by any chance?

There has got to be a "choice of evils" in this one.

37 posted on 05/07/2002 7:53:25 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: dighton
Talk about a little rough sex...
38 posted on 05/07/2002 7:58:28 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dighton
There is this thing she could have done: she could have left. I guess that didn't occur to her.

Tuor

39 posted on 05/07/2002 7:58:35 PM PDT by Tuor
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To: Gabz
(sweet innocent cashier voice) I'll need a receipt and proper identification for the return of that item. (/sweet innocent cashier voice)

In my best British accent "I'm just trying to return the bloody axe!"

40 posted on 05/07/2002 8:10:38 PM PDT by meyer
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