Therapist who killed lover ‘overreacted to any threat’

A HOMOEOPATHIC doctor who killed his young lover used force “totally out of proportion” to any threat he faced from the woman, a court heard yesterday.

Christopher Newman, 62, repeatedly knifed Georgina Eager in her Dublin bedroom and left a blade embedded in her neck.

She was about to dump ‘possessive’ Newman when he stabbed her in the flat in Walkinstown, Inner London Crown Court has heard.

Newman insists Ms Eager attacked him with a hammer and knife after he confronted the 28-year-old about video footage of her massaging a naked man at his Dublin clinic.

He claims Ms Eager then admitted to only sleeping with him for personal gain and having sex with another man. Newman disarmed her and stabbed her 21 times, in her head, face, chest, back and shoulder - with the knife penetrating her heart, lung, windpipe, carotid artery and jugular vein.

Michael Birnbaum QC, prosecuting, in his closing speech, said: “First of all, even if it was the case she came at him with a knife and held it to his throat, the explosion of violence was totally out of proportion to any threat. He was not in actually any danger. He could easily have disarmed her and walked away.

“Even if she came at him with a knife and he lost his self-control, his reaction was way beyond what a reasonable person would have done. We do not accept that it was she who initiated the use of the knife.”