Fifty shades of outrage? As a British heiress' violent lover goes on trial amid claims her death was caused by 'rough sex' gone wrong, PAUL BRACCHI examines the tragic case
Anna Reed had expensive tastes. She could afford them. She was from a very privileged background, after all; her family owned a renowned racehorse stud farm in Yorkshire. ‘Still need a Louis Vuitton suitcase, a Mulberry handbag, a Burberry trench coat, a pair of Louboutins, a Chopard watch and much, much more,’ she once tweeted from a shopping expedition to Munich. It was typical Anna. On her last trip, travelling around the globe — a 21st birthday gift from her millionaire father before the world went into lockdown — she continued in the style to which she was accustomed. How many people of her age, on what was effectively a gap year, would have been able to stay at the Hotel la Palma au Lac at the foot of the Alps, overlooking Lake Maggiore? Just hours after that romantic champagne meal on the evening of April 9, 2019, hauntingly captured in a photograph on Facebook, Anna was found dead in Room 501 back at the Hotel la Palma au Lac Anna checked into Room 501 on the top floor (more t