Oops, that was the carotid artery
A man has been jailed for six years for killing a woman he stabbed in the throat during a “bizarre and violent” sex game.
Jason Gaskell severed 21-year-old Laura Huteson’s jugular vein and carotid artery with a knife while having sex at his home in Hull on 27 February.
As one does. You know how it is – you get warmed up, everybody’s panting like a dog, and out comes the knife.
“It appears you harboured a desire for, and regularly put into practice, a particularly extreme form of sexual activity in that you enjoyed sadomasochism whereby you held the throats of sexual partners very tightly and regularly used a knife in the midst of sexual congress, usually by holding it against the throat of a woman.”
Well, it has to be a woman, of course. What fun is it otherwise?! It has to be someone smaller, someone not as strong, someone it’s easy to subdue or cause pain or choke, should the need arise.
So anyway, she’s dead but he had a really fun evening.
I’m not a medical man but I think the jugular vein and cartoid artery are in quite different places and it seems like it would take one hell of a slash – or more than one – to sever both.
I’m all for kink, but if your kink harms someone else then it really does automatically make you a bad person when you carry it out. This doesn’t sound like a mutual sex game gone oh-so-wrong, it sounds like someone killing a woman for fun.
It’s ridiculously easy to slice through both blood vessels at the same time.
I’m disgusted that he got such a short sentence. He murdered a woman, and that’s all he gets?
Apparently he had quite a history:
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/killer-jason-gaskells-terrifying-attack-1915327
He had attacked another woman just days before, and he’d previously stolen a woman’s car.
Six years is way too short of a sentence.