WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Criminologist and psychologist Alex Iszatt says people seeking such violent deaths often want to "seize control"

A man in the United States has been accused of torturing and murdering a "vulnerable” British woman who allegedly travelled overseas seeking a "violent” death. Sonia Exelby, 32, of Portsmouth, was reported missing after she failed to board her return flight on October 13.

Police arrested Dwain Hall, 53, on suspicion of murder and kidnapping charges , which he denies, after her body was found in a shallow grave in Florida on October 17.

Court records say that their meeting was arranged after the pair started chatting two years earlier in an online fetish chatroom. Disturbingly, police allege Sonia was suicidal and travelled to the United State

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