אזהרה ברורה נוספת - הסכנות בקשירה

Meiers gave evidence in her own trial, telling the court her husband had been obsessed with bondage and that he would beg to be tied up, boasting that he could escape from any situation.

She said she had tied him up hundreds of times before the final fateful occasion.

On the day Mr Braunack died, Meiers said he had been hassling her to be tied up since the early afternoon.

She eventually agreed so he would stop annoying her.

Meiers told the court there was nothing different about the way she tied him up on that occasion, and that she had no reason to harm Mr Braunack.

"I expected him to escape while I was in having a shower," she said.

Meiers told the court she had previously tied Mr Braunack up and then left him alone for extended periods of time - on one occasion she went to work and remained away from the house for 10 hours - and that he had always escaped.