Grace Millane was “naive and trusting” in the online sex community, her murder trial in New Zealand has been told.
The British backpacker gave a list of her fetishes to a man she met on a BDSM dating website, the court heard before the defence closed its case.
Three chats were recovered from BDSM online app Whiplr, which Miss Millane was a member of.
A user of the app said he had previously connected with Miss Millane, from Wickford in Essex, and had his police statement read in court.
"I felt like Grace was more naive and trusting in the BDSM area," read the statement of the unidentified man from London.
“The users could be any undesirable person online, and Grace had a naivety."
A 27-year-old man is on trial accused of murdering Miss Millane on December 1 last year, the night before her 22nd birthday, in his hotel room in Auckland.
Prosecutors allege he strangled Miss Millane before disposing of her body.
His defence told Auckland High Court today that she died accidentally after being consensually choked during sex.
The man suspected of murdering Miss Millane admitted putting Ms Millane's body in a suitcase and burying it in a mountainous woodland area outside Auckland.
He told police he had "freaked out" after finding her dead in the morning after their date.
Defence lawyer Ron Mansfield told the jury there was an “absence of any motive”.
Mansfield said his client "panicked out of a fear of the consequence" when he disposed of Miss Millane's body.
New Zealand courts have banned reporting the defendant's name and the country's government has asked international media to respect that ruling.
