What’s Gone Wrong with the ‘Sex Game Gone Wrong’ Defence Ban? – Byline Times

"The Labour MP Harriet Harman has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill regarding two cases of men convicted of manslaughter, after two women died in what the men claimed were ‘sex games gone wrong’.

Warren Coulton was convicted of manslaughter after Claire Wright was killed when he put a sock in her mouth and tied her hands behind her back. Sophie Moss was killed by Sam Pybus, who entered a guilty plea for manslaughter. She died of strangulation. 

In her letter, Harman stated that the Crown Prosecution Service – the body that decides which criminal cases are prosecuted in England and Wales and conducts the prosecutions – accepted the sex game gone wrong defence, which she said is “the ultimate victim blaming”. 

“My concern is that we are in a situation where any man can claim he killed his partner and that she consented,” she wrote, asking Hill to review the prosecution decisions in both cases. ..."