Zahid Naseem arrives at Lewes Crown Court today where he is standing trial for the murder of Christina Abbotts
An IT worker who led a secret life as a 'high-class escort' was bludgeoned to death by a city banker in a shocking, drug-fuelled attack, a court heard today.
Christina Abbotts, 29, was repeatedly beaten around the head with a kitchen pestle in a 'savage and brutal' attack in a flat.
City of London banker Zahid Naseem, 47, a father of two, then allegedly strangled her before leaving her to die in a pool of her own blood.
Police found drugs such as cocaine and the sex drug, amyl nitrate, in the property as well as a blood-stained bottle of Courvoisier brandy.
Today Naseem, a freelance financial consultant for a Canadian bank in the City of London, went on trial charged with the murder the Miss Abbotts.
Lewes Crown Court was told Christina Abbotts led a busy social life and had many friends but she also led a secret life as a sex worker and escort.
Using the pseudonym, Tilly Pexton, she advertised her sexual services online and clients could make contact with her through the website.
Christopher Tehrani, prosecuting, said: 'Unknown to many of her friends and family she worked as a sex worker, in some circles she would be known as a high class escort. 'She advertised her services on the internet.'
The court heard Naseem and Miss Abbotts had met for sex on previous occasions after the consultant had contacted her through the website, adultwork.com.
Naseem, who lived with his estranged partner and children in Amersham, Bucks, and Miss Abbotts were spotted on supermarket CCTV buying alcohol.
They then went to the two-bedroom top-floor flat Miss Abbotts was house-sitting for a friend in Crawley, where they had sex.
Mr Tehrani said: 'They then engaged in sexual activity, drinking alcohol and drug consumption. During the course of that night they did not engage in any penetrative sexual activity.'
Christina Abbotts (pictured) was found dead in her flat after after she failed to turn up at celebrations in London to mark her 29th birthday
He said Miss Abbott's last engaged in sexual activity at around midday the following day - the day of her birthday.
The court heard she was due to meet up with some friends in London that evening to celebrate her birthday a pre-arranged party.
When she failed to turn up they became increasingly concerned and tried to contact her on her phone and by text message.
That night a friend decided to drive down from London and when he couldn't get a response from the flat he went to police who forced entry into the flat at around 2.30am on May 26 and found Miss Abbotts.
The court heard she was lying naked on the bed in a pool of her own blood and was cold to the touch, yellow in colour and showing signed of rigor mortis.
They also found a black pestle which belonged with a mortar in the kitchen Naseem was found lying on the couch in the living room and, though he appeared only semi-conscious, medics who later examined him were sceptical and thought his condition was feigned.
They also found minor self-harm marks to his wrists. Mr Tehrani said there was evidence of drug use in the flat and cocaine was found on a book and a bottle of the sex drug, amyl nitrate - also known as poppers - were found in the flat.
Police also found a blood-stained bottle of Courvoisier brandy. They also found a video on his iPhone which had had sent to another sex worker he knew called Lily Rose which showed him committing a sexual act on himself.
A post mortem later found Miss Abbotts had suffered at least 13 blows to the head with a blunt weapon, which the prosecution claim was the kitchen pestle, as well as compression injuries to her neck, suggesting an attempt had been made to strangle her.
The freelance financial consultant, who worked for the Toronto Dominion Bank, was taken to hospital before being declared fit for police interview and questioned and later charged with the murder.
Mr Tehrani told the court the door of the top-floor flat was locked from the inside as were all the windows. He added: 'Only someone with the powers of Spiderman would have been able to access this flat from the outside.'
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Zahid Naseem arrives at Lewes Crown Court today where he is standing trial for the murder of Christina Abbotts
An IT worker who led a secret life as a ‘high-class escort’ was bludgeoned to death by a city banker in a shocking, drug-fuelled attack, a court heard today.
Christina...
It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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