Woman strangled man after meeting on dating app
A woman who strangled a man she met on a dating app with the cord of a sex toy told police she warned her victim of her psychopathic tendencies but he wasn’t bothered.
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A teen who brutally strangled a man she met online dating later admitted to plotting his murder, telling police she had an urge to kill.
Jamie Lee Dolheguy, 18 at the time, described in graphic detail killing 24-year-old Maulin Rathod in July last year, explaining how she choked him with the cord of a sex toy.
After meeting on dating app Plenty of Fish, Ms Dolheguy said she started to panic when Mr Rathod asked to meet up because: “I knew I was going to kill him, but didn’t want to.”
Ms Dolheguy, now 20, is on trial in the Supreme Court charged with a single count of murder. She has pleaded not guilty.
Video of a police interview conducted shortly after her arrest was today played to the court.
When specifically asked what her intention was after Mr Rathod asked to meet up, Ms Dolheguy replied: “murder”.
Ms Dolheguy was initially deemed unfit for interview, but a doctor later cleared her to be questioned by police.
She told police she knew the minute she saw Mr Rathod on her doorstep that she was going to kill him.
She said she was encouraged by Mr Rathod’s small stature, and said he appeared weak.
“I don’t pick on people who are too much for me,” she said.
“I didn’t have a plan of exactly how I was going to do it. All I knew was I was going to do it.”
Ms Dolheguy told police she suffered from a multiple personality disorder she described as “me fighting with me … like a war zone.”
“I have proper two personalities. One’s me, one’s nice, they’re both me. Only one of them I like. The other me I’m terrified of.”
Ms Dolheguy said after arriving at her home she warned Mr Rathod she had psychopathic tendencies, but said he wasn’t bothered.
She said she was annoyed because Mr Rathod wasn’t scared, saying no one took her mental health problems seriously.
“I wanted him … to do something to stop me. He didn’t. He just sat there,” she said.
“He didn’t seem to be phased or scared.”
Ms Dolheguy said he instead begged her for sex, and the pair discussed her extreme sexual fetishes, before agreeing to engage in choke play.
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It was during the choke play Ms Dolheguy said she reneged on an agreement to let go of Mr Rathod if he tapped her twice.
“When he started to panic I wrapped my legs around him to make sure he couldn’t move,” she said.
“He just eventually stopped moving.”
She then used a sex toy cord to choke him while sitting on his chest.
“I felt good for some reason. Scared but good,” she said.
Ms Dolheguy told police she had suffered so much in her life, she felt the killing gave her something back.
Prosecutors have now closed their case.
Defence witness Dr Eamonn McCarthy told the court Ms Dolheguy’s childhood had been marred by horrendous abuse.
The trial, before Justice Peter Almond, continues.