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Just a few details from the article - I think it's within 10%
Earlier in proceedings forensic pathologist Dr Simon Stables said a deep internal bruise on the 22-year-old's neck and others on her chest and arms suggest she was pinned down with considerable force.
He told jurors at Auckland's High Court her alleged killer's claims that she died during consensual 'rough' sex were the first of their kind he had come across in New Zealand.
Dr Stables said: 'From my point of view it is incredibly rare. I have never heard of another case.... in New Zealand.'
[...]
Dr Simons gave cause of death as 'pressure to the neck', explaining it would need to be sustained with immense pressure for four to five minutes.
The bruise was deep inside the neck, he added, and invisible on the surface, suggesting it happened at the time of death.
Other, blue bruises on her torso, he said, were 'consistent with some level of restraint.'
Dr Stables said that obstructing the blood flow or the airways in the neck to cause death by cutting oxygen to the brain would require between two and five kilograms of pressure.
The woman said the man had pretended to be dying of cancer on the night of their Tinder date in November last year [...]
He also said an All Blacks player was his cousin and had invited him to watch New Zealand's last game with the team's wives and girlfriends, she said.
He even pretended to call the star and leave a phone message for him, she told the court.
The man also boasted about a $500,000 business deal he had pulled off that day and told her he had been raped by a male relative but had enlisted members of a gang to chase the man away.
She added: 'I didn't believe a word he said.
Grace Millane suspect tells police he left her after date, but he actually took her to his hotel | Daily Mail Online
Earlier in proceedings forensic pathologist Dr Simon Stables said a deep internal bruise on the 22-year-old's neck and others on her chest and arms suggest she was pinned down with considerable force.
He told jurors at Auckland's High Court her alleged killer's claims that she died during consensual 'rough' sex were the first of their kind he had come across in New Zealand.
Dr Stables said: 'From my point of view it is incredibly rare. I have never heard of another case.... in New Zealand.'
[...]
Dr Simons gave cause of death as 'pressure to the neck', explaining it would need to be sustained with immense pressure for four to five minutes.
The bruise was deep inside the neck, he added, and invisible on the surface, suggesting it happened at the time of death.
Other, blue bruises on her torso, he said, were 'consistent with some level of restraint.'
Dr Stables said that obstructing the blood flow or the airways in the neck to cause death by cutting oxygen to the brain would require between two and five kilograms of pressure.
The woman said the man had pretended to be dying of cancer on the night of their Tinder date in November last year [...]
He also said an All Blacks player was his cousin and had invited him to watch New Zealand's last game with the team's wives and girlfriends, she said.
He even pretended to call the star and leave a phone message for him, she told the court.
The man also boasted about a $500,000 business deal he had pulled off that day and told her he had been raped by a male relative but had enlisted members of a gang to chase the man away.
She added: 'I didn't believe a word he said.
Grace Millane suspect tells police he left her after date, but he actually took her to his hotel | Daily Mail Online
