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Love life of City banker's wife revealed in secret sex tapes
Paul Cheston, Courts Correspondent29 Sep 2009
The murdered wife of a City banker told a lover he was sexually amazing and gave her the best thrill she had ever had, the Old Bailey heard today.
The phone call was part of more than 120 hours Neil Ellerbeck secretly taped of his wife Kate talking to their children's tennis coach Patrick McAdam, the jury was told.
Another lover told the court he wanted her to divorce so he could marry her, and he said they had sex nine days before her death.
Mrs Ellerbeck, 46, had a two-year affair with Mr McAdam, which he described as "sleazy", before her death last November. Mr McAdam told the jury he thought his mistress was trying to make him feel good because he was "nothing special" in bed.
He said his impression was the mother-of-two had not had a lot of sex before.
Ellerbeck, HSBC's chief investment manager based at the bank's Canary Wharf headquarters, is accused of strangling his wife at their Enfield home because he feared he would lose his wealth in an impending divorce. The court has heard how she would meet Mr McAdam in supermarket car parks before going back to his flat in St Albans for sex which had to finish before the school run at 3pm.
He told the jury today he told her he thought what they were doing was a bit sleazy "and from that moment the relationship became a bit difficult".
But Diana Ellis QC, defending, pointed out that the couple went to great lengths to keep their affair secret. She said Mrs Ellerbeck continued with their trysts even though she suspected her husband knew.
"You had a phone conversation saying you were feeling horny?" she asked Mr McAdam.
"We used to joke about it," he replied.
"In March last year she relived what had happened and was telling you how amazing you had been and how you had made her feel," said the QC.
Mr McAdam: "I don't remember. She liked the physical side of the relationship but I didn't think the physical side was that important."
Ms Ellis said Mrs Ellerbeck then told him: "I'm not trying to make you feel nice here but nobody has ever done that to me before and you don't understand what it feels like. It's something about the way you make me feel - it's just amazing."
The QC added: "She suggested that men might be more animalistic than women in the way they respond sexually. She then went on to give a very graphic description of the way she felt when she had sex with you."
Mr McAdam replied: "I remember the conversation vaguely, but it was just like talking about the table."
But Ms Ellis went on: "When she tells you she had had a sexual experience like never before, when she has been married for more than 13 years and you don't remember it?"
Mr McAdam: "I don't think she felt that way during sex, she was saying that to try and make me feel good.
"I thought it was obvious they had not had a lot of sex before because I'm not that special."
Mrs Ellerbeck's second lover, Martin Perry, told the court: "We were very close and were seeing each other on a daily basis."
He said that in July he sent her a text about his hopes of marrying her.
Ellerbeck, 47, of Enfield, has pleaded not guilty to murder.
The case continues.
