THE jury in the Megan Bills murder case has been told accused Ashley Foster allegedly asked a former partner if he could strangle her during sexual activity.

He made the request and sensibly she refused, said Crispin Aylett QC, prosecuting, who maintained Foster had "showed complete and utter contempt" for Megan Bills.

Mr Aylett told Wolverhampton Crown Court some people engaged in asphyxial sexual activity to enhance their sexual pleasure and that was clearly something that interested Foster.

But even among consenting adults it was an extremely dangerous thing to do with Foster claiming it was the teenager who "wanted to be strangled”.

It was done to achieve his own sexual pleasure to live out his own "snuff movie fantasy".

It was Foster's case, added Mr Aylett, that what happened had been an accident - "a word we need to approach with caution. But this was an accident waiting to happen."

Dawn Bills, the mother of Megan who was adopted when she was seven-years-old, said she had attended Ridgewood High School in Wollaston, Stourbridge.

She then enrolled at Dudley College to take a hairdressing course before moving on to Halesowen College where she qualified.

Mrs Bills said Megan then wanted more independence and she moved in with her boyfriend Joshua Edwards into a flat in Dudley.

"She told me she was having a nice time with her friends," she went on as she told the court how Megan had started visiting her three days in a row.

"She spent the days with us - it was lovely," she said and added: "She seemed quite positive from where she had been. She felt she needed to make a new start and she had a plan of action. We thought she had turned the corner."

Mrs Bills said it was after not hearing from Megan for more than two weeks that she had reported her missing to the police.

Mr Edwards told the jury in evidence that Megan had been hanging around with the wrong crowd and her attitude had changed.

It had caused a lot of stress in their relationship and there were many arguments before she moved out of the flat and he went back to his parents’ home.

"The last time I saw her we had a laugh and we were on good terms," said Mr Edwards who described his sexual relationship with the teenager as "normal”.

He said: "There was no violence or anyone taking pleasure from the action of violence. There was no strangulation or anything like that."

The trial continues.