- Heide Victoria Bos pleaded guilty to manslaughter of Nicholas Cameron, 39
- Her ‘submissive’ Stuart Lindsay Heron allegedly carried out the fatal attack
- Seasoned homicide squad detectives described the attack as ‘brutal’
- Bos is expected to have her preliminary plea and sentence before Christmas
- A gag order hiding Bos’ request for a sentence indication was lifted on Tuesday
Source: Dailymail.co.uk.
AUSTRALIA – A dominatrix who ordered her ‘willing slave’ to attack a man will spend Christmas behind bars after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
Hairdresser Heide Victoria Bos, 37, of Melbourne‘s CBD pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Tuesday to killing 39-year-old Nicholas Cameron.
She had originally been charged with murder, but accepted an Office of Public Prosecutions deal to plead to the lesser charge.
At the time, seasoned homicide squad detective Sol Solomon described the attack against Mr Cameron as ‘extremely brutal’.
Bos’ guilty plea came after she asked Justice Michael Croucher for a sentence indication.
Her co-accused, Stuart Lindsay Heron, remains behind bars and is expected to face his own Supreme Court of Victoria murder trial next year.
While Bos’ motive for having her victim attacked remain unknown for now, an earlier hearing heard her ‘submissive’ Heron allegedly carried out the assault on her instructions.
The court heard Heron had been Bos’ ‘willing slave’ in the conspiracy to hurt Mr Cameron.
Upon her arrest, Bos told police she had never meant the attack on Mr Cameron to go that far.
During a bail hearing in July, Bos’ barrister argued that the woman – who was ‘dominant’ in the relationship’ – didn’t intend for Heron to kill Mr Cameron. News.com.au reported.
The court heard the pair had met on ‘FetLife’ – a social media site for the BDSM and fetish community.
The couple had been together for just on six weeks when the alleged murder took place.
The court heard Heron was a committed slave, paying for his dominatrix’s rent.
In messages between the pair, Bos told Heron ‘you will please your queen’ and ‘you will prove your loyalty’.
Bos’ barrister Malcolm Thomas told the court his client’s relationship was a ‘fantasy-style one of slave and mistress’.
Mr Thomas claimed Bos simply believed her submissive lover would ‘warn off’ Mr Cameron, stating she did not expect him to cause serious injury or kill him.
Bos had been expected to contest the murder charge, with her barrister at the time describing the prosecution case as ‘extremely weak’.
Mr Thomas said while Bos understood there would be ‘some violence’ against Mr Cameron, he would be alive at the end of the confrontation.
The court heard Bos claimed she was oblivious to the fact that weapons would be used in the attack.
Mr Thomas told the July hearing while Bos believed Heron had connections to outlaw motorcycle gangs, she gave him no specific instructions to murder the target.
The court heard Bos had led a faultless life before deciding to have Mr Cameron killed.
Bos had been a regular contributor to Instagram, which indicates she is the mother of a teenage son.
The court heard she suffered from post traumatic stress disorder after her previous partner died in a motorbike crash and had struggled with drug abuse.
Bos, who appeared in court on Tuesday via videolink, will appear in court in person for her plea hearing next month.
