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Vic escort strangling accidental: court
By Joel Cresswell, AAP
Updated August 13, 2013, 4:53 pm
A Melbourne man says he was pulling leather reins attached to a dog collar around a prostitute's neck when he accidentally strangled her.
Steve Constantinou says he was watching a porn film while pulling on the reins when sex worker Johanna "Jazzy O" Martin collapsed face down on his bed.
Constantinou told his Victorian Supreme Court murder trial he lay on top of her for a couple of minutes before going to the bathroom where he realised she was unresponsive.
"She wasn't moving, she was laying flat on her face on the bed," Constantinou said on Tuesday.
"I was thinking she was playing games. (Her death) didn't click with me at all."
Constantinou, 49, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Martin, a 65-year-old sex worker and stripper who was also known as Honi, in his Port Melbourne apartment in October 2011.
He told the court once he established she was dead he gathered her belongings in a panic then drove to Footscray where he sold her jewellery at a pawn store.
He returned to his apartment to wrap her body in a sheet then dumped her on a nearby footpath.
"I was crying, apologising to her, saying `This wasn't meant to happen'," Constantinou told the jury.
"I wanted her to be found but not at my place."
The court heard Constantinou went to a hotel and gambled before getting his tyres changed at a mechanic in the hours after dumping Ms Martin's body.
Constantinou said the pair developed a friendship after a chance meeting at the South Melbourne market in February 2011.
They would get together to chat and have sex, he told the court.
Ms Martin also leant Constantinou several thousands of dollars to help meet his debts, but he said he typically gambled the money away.
The trial has heard Ms Martin was a woman of considerable wealth, with assets of about $3 million including properties and cash.
Prosecutors say Constantinou killed Ms Martin because she had asked that he repay $8500 she had loaned him.
Constantinou described Ms Martin as a good friend but said there were two sides to her personality.
"In the bedroom (she was) rough, I don't want to use the word crazy, just rough," he said.
"Outside the bedroom she was just a gentle, lovely lady."
Constantinou said the pair had nicknames for each other in the bedroom.
"Her name was tiger in the bedroom, mine was big boy," he said.
The trial continues.
By Joel Cresswell, AAP
Updated August 13, 2013, 4:53 pm
A Melbourne man says he was pulling leather reins attached to a dog collar around a prostitute's neck when he accidentally strangled her.
Steve Constantinou says he was watching a porn film while pulling on the reins when sex worker Johanna "Jazzy O" Martin collapsed face down on his bed.
Constantinou told his Victorian Supreme Court murder trial he lay on top of her for a couple of minutes before going to the bathroom where he realised she was unresponsive.
"She wasn't moving, she was laying flat on her face on the bed," Constantinou said on Tuesday.
"I was thinking she was playing games. (Her death) didn't click with me at all."
Constantinou, 49, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Martin, a 65-year-old sex worker and stripper who was also known as Honi, in his Port Melbourne apartment in October 2011.
He told the court once he established she was dead he gathered her belongings in a panic then drove to Footscray where he sold her jewellery at a pawn store.
He returned to his apartment to wrap her body in a sheet then dumped her on a nearby footpath.
"I was crying, apologising to her, saying `This wasn't meant to happen'," Constantinou told the jury.
"I wanted her to be found but not at my place."
The court heard Constantinou went to a hotel and gambled before getting his tyres changed at a mechanic in the hours after dumping Ms Martin's body.
Constantinou said the pair developed a friendship after a chance meeting at the South Melbourne market in February 2011.
They would get together to chat and have sex, he told the court.
Ms Martin also leant Constantinou several thousands of dollars to help meet his debts, but he said he typically gambled the money away.
The trial has heard Ms Martin was a woman of considerable wealth, with assets of about $3 million including properties and cash.
Prosecutors say Constantinou killed Ms Martin because she had asked that he repay $8500 she had loaned him.
Constantinou described Ms Martin as a good friend but said there were two sides to her personality.
"In the bedroom (she was) rough, I don't want to use the word crazy, just rough," he said.
"Outside the bedroom she was just a gentle, lovely lady."
Constantinou said the pair had nicknames for each other in the bedroom.
"Her name was tiger in the bedroom, mine was big boy," he said.
The trial continues.
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