Cecile Brossard interrupted proceedings to tell the packed Geneva courtroom that she had committed an 'abominable act' against her lover Edouard Stern, and wanted the full truth to be known.
Stern, 50, was found dead in his locked luxury Geneva flat on March 1, Four bullet holes pierced the head-to-toe flesh-coloured latex outfit he still wore from the night before.
I have come to explain myself, not to defend myself, and say how it happened,' a sobbing Brossard said in a barely audible voice. She expressed regret that his three adult children - two of whom were allowed to testify privately earlier - would never again be able to celebrate Christmas with their father. He had been the 'most intelligent, refined, cultivated and marvellous man' she had ever known.
Marc Bonnant, the Stern family lawyer, intervened to say: 'If he was such a marvellous man, you shouldn't have shot him'. Stern's family, including his former wife Beatrice, was seated just a few feet behind Brossard, who wore grey trousers and a blue vest, her blond hair in a tight bun.
Investigating officers who testified on Wednesday quoted Brossard as having said she shot Stern after he told her: 'One million dollars is a lot of money to pay for a whore. The banker was sitting with his hands tied, wearing a full latex bodysuit, when she first shot him between the eyes with his own handgun.
