A former Hogan Lovells partner has appeared in court after his lover pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm during a drug-fuelled bondage session.

Neil Fagan retired from the firm formerly known as Lovells last April. And, obviously missing the grind of working for a major international law firm, decided to have the thumbscrews applied elsewhere. And so it came to pass that he embarked on what the Daily Mail describe as a "drug-fuelled sadomasochistic sex session" at the Waldorf Hilton in May 2009.

Fagan was found by police wearing a leather thong, with hot wax dripping from his chest and surrounded by "sexual paraphanalia" (the mind boggles) and a non-wife lady friend. Oh, and his nipples were in clamps too.

Hotel staff had been alerted by screaming. Rushing to the room, the hotel manager discovered Fagan bleeding profusely after being glassed by his long-term bit on the side, Finola McKenna. According to the Mail, McKenna objected to the use of some particular implements in their romp - implements described by judge Michael Gledhill QC as looking "to the untrained eye as medieval torture instruments". And so she twatted him about the chops with a champagne glass.

    You've got to clamp a nipple or two

The pair were locked in the room until police arrived to find both McKenna and Faga covered in blood. McKenna attempted to flee, pausing only to bite PC Nancy Simpson on the ankle.

Fagan subsequently accepted a police caution for possession of cocaine and cannabis. McKenna received four months in prison (suspended for twelve) for the glassing and the biting. The judge added "I hope this may just pursuade you to stop going out to champagne parties and spending the night with men such as this". What, lawyers?

As Fagan had left his job at Lovells (as was) before he embarked on this particular frolic of his own, Hogan Lovells (as is) declined to comment.
 
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