UK banker's bizarre death

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The Sun reports that a British banker paid two escorts to help him commit suicide.

Colin Birch, 44, hanged himself from a tree days after he lost his job as an assistant vice-president at Deutsche Bank in London.

The women, Marie Laurent and Alex Sturley, both 35, thought he was playing a kinky sex game and wearing a safety harness. The newspaper said Birch got them to abuse him, telling him he "deserved to die".

They told police that while he was alone for a moment he killed himself.