A superhero impersonator died after wrapping himself in three rolls of cling film and a red nylon sheet in a bizarre solo sex game which went wrong. James Lockless, 50, was discovered dead in his flat when police officers broke the door down after his friends and neighbours realised he was missing. Click below to read the rest of the story.
The officers found him dead in a dark room near three rolls of cling film and a weight-lifting bench in the property in Carshalton, Surrey. Police officers initially thought the karate teacher and impersonator of the Marvel Comics character Wolverine may have been murdered. When other officers arrived and cut the sheet off the body, they found cling film wrapped tightly around various parts of his body including his neck and ankles. A post-mortem examination revealed he had died from autoerotic asphyxia, a coroner, sitting in Croydon, heard. The alarm was raised when he failed to turn up for a karate lesson and his body was found. Police found the body lying on its left hand side bound from head to toe in red nylon on the floor. The officers had to cut three rolls of cling film attached to his body. It was around his ankles and other places including his neck. In returning a verdict of misadventure, Coroner Dr Roy Palmer, said: ‘He managed to do what he did entirely on his own’.
