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| Eliska Novotna jailed for Peebles 'sex games' killing | Eliska Novotna jailed for Peebles 'sex games' killing |
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| A woman who stabbed her housemate to death after "sex games" went wrong has been jailed for nine years. | A woman who stabbed her housemate to death after "sex games" went wrong has been jailed for nine years. |
| Eliska Novotna, 23, tied up Arunas Ramanauskas with the chord of a dressing gown and blindfolded him before stabbing him six times. | |
| She had admitted stabbing him at the farmhouse near Peebles in October last year but claimed it was self-defence. | She had admitted stabbing him at the farmhouse near Peebles in October last year but claimed it was self-defence. |
| She was charged with murder but a jury found her guilty of a reduced charge of culpable homicide. | She was charged with murder but a jury found her guilty of a reduced charge of culpable homicide. |
| Sentencing Novotna at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lady Clark told her: "As a result of the stabbing he died and you did nothing to assist him." | |
| Lithuanian Mr Ramanauskas, 39, known as "Russian Ronnie", was found lying in a pool of blood in his bedroom - and police discovered sex toys in a bedside cabinet there. | |
| Novotna admitted she had stabbed him at the Old Farm House, Easter Happrew, near Peebles but denied murder, insisting she had been trying to defend herself from his sexual advances. | |
| After an eight-day trial in Dundee, a jury found her guilty of a reduced charge of culpable homicide. | |
| Lady Clark said: "The circumstances were unusual and the jury obviously accepted that there was provocation in the form of some sexual assault on you at the time. | |
| "That, of course, does not justify killing Arunas Ramanauskas. | |
| "It does affect the way I deal with it." | |
| She added that a lengthy prison sentence was inevitable to mark the "very bad conduct" and its "very terrible consequences". | |
| The trial heard how the two - who worked on the same farm - went shopping in a supermarket in Peebles just hours before the attack. | |
| CCTV footage showed them in the local Sainsbury's where they bought rum and strong lager. | |
| Mr Ramanauskas invited Novotna into his room where they chatted about tattoos. | |
| Sex act | |
| Novotna, who had just moved into the farmhouse, claimed he started touching her "lovingly". | |
| She tried to escape to the kitchen but he followed, trying to dance with her. | |
| Novotna, originally from the Czech Republic, said she went back to his room where he took off her top and bra. | |
| Again she ran, but went back into the bedroom armed with a knife. | |
| She told how he tried to make her perform a sex act. | |
| She tied the dressing gown chord round his neck and over his eyes and then stabbed him. | |
| Novotna also claimed she was so scared of her housemate that she barricaded the door of her room and slept with a knife under her pillow. | |
| Defence QC Jim Keegan told the court that she was not "callous" when she left Mr Ramanauskas dead or dying but her actions were automatic. | |
| "She was just not thinking at all," he said. | |
| The lawyer said Novotna also claimed she had been sexually abused as a child by her grandfather. Although there was nothing to back up her story, it fitted her psychiatric profile. | |
| "It is a very tragic case," said Mr Keegan. |