GP cleared of assault after Fifty Shades of Grey-style spanking session left millionaire lover covered in wounds

Elvira Blakemore, 41, insisted the spanking was consensual and her lover James Austin had encouraged her saying 'Go on baby', a court heard

A Fifty Shades of Grey-loving GP has been cleared of assault after spanking her millionaire lover so hard with a cane he was left covered in bleeding wounds.

Elvira Blakemore, 41, hit successful businessman James Austin, 57, between 25 and 35 times on his bare back with a bamboo cane, a court heard.

The NHS doctor whacked her fiance with such force the cane eventually snapped.

She then poured champagne on his back saying "Alcohol is good for the wounds”, Croydon Crown Court heard.

Mr Austin was left in such pain he was forced to dial 999.

Paramedics attended and advised he go to hospital.

He later told police: "I asked her to stop, but she didn’t. She had a look of hate in her eyes, but I love her."

Dr Blakemore, however, told the officers he was lying when she was arrested.

She denied assault and a jury took just 15 minutes to clear her of the charge on Friday.

The court heard how Dr Blakemore and Mr Austin had enjoyed a whirlwind romance after meeting via an online dating site.

Dr Blakemore moved into Mr Austin's £3.6million mansion in Locksbottom, Kent, and the couple soon got engaged.

The court heard how Dr Blakemore took an interest in the Fifty Shades of Grey books and the pair kept a cane in their bedroom for their mutual enjoyment of spanking.

Mr Austin also admitted the couple went to Ann Summers and bought certain items, including a spanking paddle.

But things turned sour after the pair quarrelled at their engagement party.

Mr Austin passed out naked when he said he awoke to find Dr Blakemore hitting him.

He claimed: "I went to bed and was more or less asleep when she entered the room raging and started hitting me with a garden cane."

But Dr Blakemore, who was born in Chechnya, gave the court a different version of events, claiming the spanking was consenual.

In her defence, Dr Blakemore told the court: "He told me to get on with it and I came in and sat on him and caned him.

"The point of caning is the contrast between painful stimulation and touching the body and he said, 'Go on baby.'"

Dr Blakemore wept as she was cleared - both parties declined to comment as they left court.