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Intimate phone conversations between the wife of a City banker and her tennis coach lover were read to an Old Bailey jury today.
Kate Ellerbeck, 45, repeatedly exclaimed “Oh God” as she spoke to Patrick McAdam about their sex in the bedroom of his flat.
The conversation, eight months before she was killed, was secretly recorded by her husband Neil Ellerbeck, 46, the court heard.
The senior HSBC executive is accused of strangling her at their £600,000 family home in Enfield after discovering she had been cheating on him and that she wanted a divorce.
The call was part of 127 hours of recordings found on a memory stick at his Canary Wharf office.
In the recording, Mrs Ellerbeck told Mr McAdam: “It still makes me feel amazing. You don't understand what you do to me. It's incredible.
“I'm not trying to make you feel good here but nobody has ever done that to me before. It is not like a guy I suppose. Like you say, you are animals and you can come anywhere anytime.
“For me I have always been one of those people that can take it or leave it. I'm really not fussed.
“Maybe I have never been with anyone I really wanted. It's the way you make me feel ... it's just amazing.”
This was followed, prosecutor Zoe Johnson told the jury, by “a graphic description about the way sex makes her feel”.
Mrs Ellerbeck told her lover: “You know what I love more than anything is holding my chest against yours.
“You took me in the bedroom when I was on your lap. I have been thinking about you. Oh God, it's amazing what you do.” She went on: “Why don't you move closer. Come and live around here, it's a nice thought. Oh my God, that's just it for me.”
Mrs Ellerbeck then turned the conversation to how attractive her lover is to other women and his plans to travel to South Africa. She said: “I see you coaching and I see the way girls look at you. You have got a lot of attention.
“If you start seeing somebody there I am going to notice it. I promise you I'm not going to get the hump. I'm not going to take it out on you. You might go and fall in love with South Africa and not come home. Have a lovely time.”
Ellerbeck, of Enfield, denies murder. He admits fighting with his wife on the morning of her death in November last year and pinning her down when she was violent. He claims she was alive when he left at 11.20am but was dead when he returned at noon.
The trial continues.
