Man was killed after ‘sex games’ court told

A MAN allegedly murdered by his housemate after “playing sexual games” with her was found dead with a dressing gown cord tied round his neck and eyes, a court has heard.

Arunas Ramanauskas was found dead by paramedics at the remote farmhouse at Easter Happrew Farm, near Peebles, following the alleged attack by Eliska Novotna.

The second day of her trial at the High Court in Dundee yesterday heard that the mercy crew found him wearing only a pair of underpants and blindfolded by the belt.

Earlier, the court was told that Novotna – who denies murder – told police officers: “We played some sexual games, then I killed him.”

Yesterday PC Barry Haig said he was the first officer to arrive on the scene at around 4:40am on 8 October last year.

He told how paramedics directed him upstairs where he found the grim scene.

PC Haid said: “He was on his back on the floor, with his legs almost in a figure four position. He had a burgundy dressing gown on the floor next to him.

“The cord was round his neck and his eyes. He was dressed only in underpants.

“There was an incision directly above where his heart was.

“The room was quite dishevelled – there was a double bed and on it there were two pools of what looked like blood.”

The jury was shown a series of graphic pictures of the scene, including close ups of Mr Ramanauskas’s body and the dressing gown cord wrapped round his head.

Novotna, 23, denies a charge of murdering Mr Ramanauskas on 7 or 8 October last year at The Old Farm House, Easter Happrew Peebles, by repeatedly stabbing him.

She further denies attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

The trial continues.