Lover admits to kinky sex killing
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The lover of one of the most influential bankers in Europe has broken down in court and admitted killing him after kinky sex.Cecile Brossard, 40, shot French investment banker Edouard Stern, 50, in his luxury apartment in Geneva in 2005.
Mr Stern, a friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was found in a latex body suit with four bullet wounds.
Defence lawyers say during a sex game he told her: "A million dollars is a lot of money to pay for a whore."
Ms Brossard told the court in Geneva at the start of her trial she would "try to explain the truth".
I would like to ask for forgiveness, but we cannot seek forgiveness for something so abominable
Cecile Brossard
Mr Stern was an investment banker and the 38th richest man in France.
His death was at first rumoured to be linked to the Russian mafia, before his lover confessed.
Lawyers for the Stern family claim she wanted money and planned to kill Stern when she realised she would not get it - a premeditated killing which would carry a sentence of up to 20 years.
Ms Brossard's lawyers, however, say Mr Stern had humiliated and abused her, and that the shooting was an unpremeditated crime of passion - which has a maximum sentence of only 10 years.
