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The top lawyer, his lover and a drug-fuelled sadomasochistic sex session that led to bloodshed at the Hilton
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By Rebecca Camber Daily Mail
Last updated at 5:26 PM on 23rd June 2010
Attack: Finola McKenna hit Neil Fagan with a champagne glass
As one of the most highly regarded lawyers in the City, Neil Fagan has spent decades advising clients about risk.
But when it comes to his own personal life, the married father-of-three was a little less cautious.
Yesterday a criminal court heard how the top lawyer was attacked by a woman with a champagne glass during a drug-fuelled sadomasochistic sex session at an exclusive London hotel.
Staff alerted to the sound of screaming at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel found the 61-year-old former partner in leading law firm Hogan Lovells wearing only a tiny leather thong, nipple clamps, other sexual paraphenalia, and with hot wax dripping down his chest.
His lover Finola McKenna, who was also naked, glassed the lawyer in the face when he tried to force her to use a 'medieval torture instrument' during a kinky sex session, Southwark Crown Court heard yesterday.
The manager of the prestigious five-star hotel in Covent Garden, Sufiyan Baig grabbed the glass from his 46-year-old lover and locked the couple in the room while he called the police.
But when officers arrived they found the couple still naked and covered in blood after apparently rolling around on the floor.
When police tried to apprehend the naked woman, who was still holding a broken champagne glass, she bit the ankle of the female officer attempting to restrain her.
Prosecutor David Povall described the lurid scene on May 20 last year as McKenna was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He told the court said: 'While someone fetched the police Mr Baig waited outside the room and continued to hear struggling, arguments and the smashing of glass from inside.
'Officers came up to the room and opened the door and were again faced with the defendant and Mr Fagan both effectively naked. 'By this stage there was a considerable amount of blood smeared on the tiled floor and a quantity of broken glass.
'Both the defendant and Mr Fagan were bleeding from both their faces and their bodies.
Sex session: The couple were discovered in a £500 a night room at the five star Waldorf Hilton hotel near Covent Garden in London's West End
'The defendant was holding a broken champagne glass and a small bottle of champagne, her wrist being held by Mr Fagan.'
Police officers wrestled the naked woman to the floor in the corridor and held her there until she calmed down when they allowed her to dress.
But after she got her clothes the mother-of-two tried to escape, running along the plush corridors of the hotel until she was tackled by a member of staff.
Mr Povall added: 'As she was being handcuffed she bit the leg of PC Nancy Simpson, who was one of the officers restraining her, causing her to skin to break.'
Police later found cocaine and cannabis scattered around their £500 a night suite.
Mr Fagan, who suffered superficial cuts to his face, neck, arms and feet in the attack, accepted a police caution for the possession of class A drugs.
Leather thong: Neil Fagan wanted his lover to inflict pain using nipple clamps
But the corporate and commercial litigation expert, who retired from Hogan Lovells in April last year after a 40-year legal career, refused to give a statement about what happened, save to say that he and McKenna were acquaintances.
Yesterday his lover pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
Richard Butcher, defending, said his client was a 'hard-working' woman who was 'deeply ashamed' at what had happened that night.
Judge Michael Gledhill QC gave her a conditional discharge for the attack on Mr Fagan, who the court heard she had been meeting for sex for a number of years.
The judge said: 'It is quite clear to me that he wanted you to do things to him such as dripping hot wax on him and that he wanted to do things to you, which you did not want to happen.
'I've seen at least two implements which looked to the untrained eye as medieval torture instruments and not surprisingly you did not want to have pain inflicted upon you.
'I accept that you told him that but he persisted.
'He is a professional man and he has put his professional reputation very much on the line and he did not want to be involved in this case at all.
'I accept that it was what he was trying to make you do that made you behave in this uncharacteristically violent way therefore I see fit to give you a conditional discharge.'
McKenna was sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for 12 months and given a six-month curfew order for assaulting a police officer.
The judge added: 'Police officers have to be protected from drunks who go around assaulting them - particularly by biting them.
'I hope this may just persuade you to stop going out to champagne parties and spending the night with men such as this.
'I hope you will put this dreadful incident behind you.'
McKenna was also ordered to pay £250 compensation to PC Simpson and £250 towards the cost of the prosecution.
Yesterday Mr Fagan, who is now 63, was unavailable for comment at his million-pound home in Farnham, Hampshire.
The high-flyer still works as a legal consultant for a City firm of analysts, the Forensic Risk Alliance.
He is also and adviser to the law firm, Armstrong Bonham Carter.
According to Debrett's, he considers his family, swimming, sailing, gardening as his favourite recreations.
Yesterday his wife Catherine, with whom he has three daughters, refused to comment at their home.
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By Rebecca Camber Daily Mail
Last updated at 5:26 PM on 23rd June 2010
Attack: Finola McKenna hit Neil Fagan with a champagne glass
As one of the most highly regarded lawyers in the City, Neil Fagan has spent decades advising clients about risk.
But when it comes to his own personal life, the married father-of-three was a little less cautious.
Yesterday a criminal court heard how the top lawyer was attacked by a woman with a champagne glass during a drug-fuelled sadomasochistic sex session at an exclusive London hotel.
Staff alerted to the sound of screaming at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel found the 61-year-old former partner in leading law firm Hogan Lovells wearing only a tiny leather thong, nipple clamps, other sexual paraphenalia, and with hot wax dripping down his chest.
His lover Finola McKenna, who was also naked, glassed the lawyer in the face when he tried to force her to use a 'medieval torture instrument' during a kinky sex session, Southwark Crown Court heard yesterday.
The manager of the prestigious five-star hotel in Covent Garden, Sufiyan Baig grabbed the glass from his 46-year-old lover and locked the couple in the room while he called the police.
But when officers arrived they found the couple still naked and covered in blood after apparently rolling around on the floor.
When police tried to apprehend the naked woman, who was still holding a broken champagne glass, she bit the ankle of the female officer attempting to restrain her.
Prosecutor David Povall described the lurid scene on May 20 last year as McKenna was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
He told the court said: 'While someone fetched the police Mr Baig waited outside the room and continued to hear struggling, arguments and the smashing of glass from inside.
'Officers came up to the room and opened the door and were again faced with the defendant and Mr Fagan both effectively naked. 'By this stage there was a considerable amount of blood smeared on the tiled floor and a quantity of broken glass.
'Both the defendant and Mr Fagan were bleeding from both their faces and their bodies.
'The defendant was holding a broken champagne glass and a small bottle of champagne, her wrist being held by Mr Fagan.'
Police officers wrestled the naked woman to the floor in the corridor and held her there until she calmed down when they allowed her to dress.
But after she got her clothes the mother-of-two tried to escape, running along the plush corridors of the hotel until she was tackled by a member of staff.
Mr Povall added: 'As she was being handcuffed she bit the leg of PC Nancy Simpson, who was one of the officers restraining her, causing her to skin to break.'
Police later found cocaine and cannabis scattered around their £500 a night suite.
Mr Fagan, who suffered superficial cuts to his face, neck, arms and feet in the attack, accepted a police caution for the possession of class A drugs.
But the corporate and commercial litigation expert, who retired from Hogan Lovells in April last year after a 40-year legal career, refused to give a statement about what happened, save to say that he and McKenna were acquaintances.
Yesterday his lover pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
Richard Butcher, defending, said his client was a 'hard-working' woman who was 'deeply ashamed' at what had happened that night.
Judge Michael Gledhill QC gave her a conditional discharge for the attack on Mr Fagan, who the court heard she had been meeting for sex for a number of years.
The judge said: 'It is quite clear to me that he wanted you to do things to him such as dripping hot wax on him and that he wanted to do things to you, which you did not want to happen.
'I've seen at least two implements which looked to the untrained eye as medieval torture instruments and not surprisingly you did not want to have pain inflicted upon you.
'I accept that you told him that but he persisted.
'He is a professional man and he has put his professional reputation very much on the line and he did not want to be involved in this case at all.
'I accept that it was what he was trying to make you do that made you behave in this uncharacteristically violent way therefore I see fit to give you a conditional discharge.'
McKenna was sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for 12 months and given a six-month curfew order for assaulting a police officer.
The judge added: 'Police officers have to be protected from drunks who go around assaulting them - particularly by biting them.
'I hope this may just persuade you to stop going out to champagne parties and spending the night with men such as this.
'I hope you will put this dreadful incident behind you.'
McKenna was also ordered to pay £250 compensation to PC Simpson and £250 towards the cost of the prosecution.
Yesterday Mr Fagan, who is now 63, was unavailable for comment at his million-pound home in Farnham, Hampshire.
The high-flyer still works as a legal consultant for a City firm of analysts, the Forensic Risk Alliance.
He is also and adviser to the law firm, Armstrong Bonham Carter.
According to Debrett's, he considers his family, swimming, sailing, gardening as his favourite recreations.
Yesterday his wife Catherine, with whom he has three daughters, refused to comment at their home.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ssion-led-Hilton-bloodshed.html#ixzz0rqMezHBo
