S&M killer was in loving relationship with his victim

A property tycoon who battered his young lover to death in a cocaine fuelled S&M sex session was in a ‘loving relationship’, the Court of Appeal was told. John Broadhurst, 41, was jailed for three years and eight months after he left Natalie Connolly, 26, to die in a pool of her blood at the bottom of her staircase on December 18, 2016. Police found her with more than 40 injuries to her breast, buttocks, and head when they arrived…