World Scene: Switzerland

Term for sex-game murder

A Swiss court has sentenced a woman to eight and a half years in prison for murdering one of France's richest men by shooting him while he was tied up in a chair during sex games.

Geneva's Court of Assizes handed down the sentence yesterday to Cecile Brossard, whom a jury found guilty of killing her lover Edouard Stern. Brossard, who is 40, admitted killing the banker but said it was because he enraged her by suggesting she was a million-dollar prostitute.