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UK: DJ dead after gay bondage session

Wed 4 Jun 2008 In: International News View at Wayback

Former BBC Radio 1 Breakfast DJ Kevin Greening died from a drugs overdose after taking part in a gay bondage session, an inquest has heard. Kevin Greening The body of the 44-year-old was found by police in a flat in Wandsworth, south London, in December last year, Westminster Coroner's Court heard. The BBC reports that Coroner Paul Knapman recorded a verdict of misadventure, saying: "He was found dead having indulged in unorthodox sexual behaviour involving restraint equipment and illegal drugs." On the day he died, he had been in a leather sling attached to scaffolding in the bedroom of the flat occupied by his boyfriend Sean Griffin, the inquest heard. He was still wearing a rubber suit and had cling film and "gaffer tape" around him. Griffin told the inquest he had become concerned about Greening when he noticed that his face was pale and the area around his mouth was grey. Asked by Dr Knapman to confirm that at all times their activity had been "perfectly consensual" between the two men in the privacy of the flat, Griffin replied: "Indeed." "Kevin and I had a very happy and very vigorous sex life," he said. "It was not conventional by heterosexual norms perhaps but it was a sex life which was vigorous and imaginative and we enjoyed each other." This story continues on the BBC website, linked below.    

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First published: Wednesday, 4th June 2008 - 10:45am

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