What the Dewani judge didn't want the court to hear

The bald, average-looking guy who took the stand in the Shrien Dewani murder trial this week bore little resemblance to online pictures of the infamous leather-clad German Master who touts himself as Europe's leading S&M escort.

Brought to South Africa to testify for the state, Leopold Leisser opted for a grey suit when he began his testimony in the High Court in Cape Town on Monday.

He had barely begun when Dewani's counsel, Pieter Botha, objected, questioning the relevance of his testimony.

State prosecutor Adrian Mopp told the court that Leisser would give evidence about a conversation he had with Dewani, which could establish a "potential motive on the part of [Dewani]" for killing his wife Anni in Cape Town in November 2010.

Judge Jeanette Traverso stepped in, instructing the two teams to submit written arguments regarding Leisser's testimony by the next day.

On Tuesday morning, after reading the arguments, she ruled that evidence relating to Dewani and Leisser's interaction was inadmissible because Dewani's sexuality was irrelevant to the case.

While Leisser's time on the stand was cut short, the details contained in his affidavit to police in 2011 offer revealing insights into the three sex sessions he had with Dewani.

Below is an edited transcript of this affidavit:

FIRST SESSION

September 18 2009, 10pm

The German Master's home, Birmingham

I AM a UK resident, currently self-employed and work part time as a gay escort since February 2008.

I met Shrien Dewani through a website called Gaydar.co.uk, where I had a commercial profile advertising my escort services. My profile on the website was called GermanMaster. I created the profile about two years ago in February 2009. I had a main picture on the site and then further photographs and a description of myself. The photographs showed me wearing different clothes and outfits such as leather gear and "skin" gear. The description of myself comprised firstly of a physical description such as my height, build and general appearance, and then I described the sort of fetishes that I catered for. When I refer to "skin" gear I mean the "skinhead" look, comprising of a Fred Perry polo shirt, bleached jeans, and boots that come to the mid-calf area, with about 20 lace-up holes.

Dewani had a profile on Gaydar also, called Asiansubguy. It had his physical description in his profile page and also had a photograph in which you couldn't see his face as it was covered with a rubber mask.

Dewani first came to my home address on 18th September 2009. We met on Gaydar.co.uk. a few weeks before this time when his profile Asiansubguy sent me a message on the site. I cannot remember the exact date of the first contact online. We sent a few messages back and forth, and arranged a meeting for 18th September.

Dewani was quite into the fetish scene around master/slave play and submission. Before I meet a client for the first time, I send them a form for them to complete in order to find out what they like to do sexually and what they don't like, and also to find out about their previous sexual experience, as some people may be new to the scene and boundaries need to be established.

I e-mailed the form to Dewani at his personal e-mail address and he e-mailed it back to me on 14th September 2008. We began to text each other on our mobile phones from lst September 2009, and began to discuss the form and discuss our meeting.

During this time he mentioned that he had previously been to fetish clubs such as Backstreet, Hoist and S.O.P. I also called him on this date for almost 11 minutes in order to again talk about the form and our meeting.

I knew early on that Dewani's first name was Shrien. I can't remember if he told me this prior to our first or second meeting, however it was early on. He didn't tell me that his surname was Dewani until later on. I don't ask personal details of clients - if they wish to share things with me such as their name, then I leave this up to them.

Before our first meeting Dewani sent me a photograph of his face via Gaydar. I like to see who I am meeting up with beforehand as it helps to give a feel for a person. On the Gaydar profile there was a photograph of an Asian man in a mask. He was about 5'9" [about 1.75m] slim build with a good upper body and black hair. The first meeting was arranged as a three-hour session. Before he arrived Dewani asked to stay overnight as he was travelling up to me in Birmingham, and he wouldn't be arriving until late in the evening.

When he arrived for the first meeting Dewani drove a dark blue BMW 4 X4. He was casually dressed. He brought some items with him such as a rubber vest and a pair of rubber shorts and 20-hole boots. I think he also brought a pair of bleached jeans as well. He got changed into the clothes and we had a session. We went to bed, slept, and then he left the next morning. He paid me à360 [about R4900 at today's exchange rate] for the session and made that payment in cash. It is unusual for me to allow a client to stay over. The reason I allowed him to do so was because he was very friendly and I liked him. He was very charming and quite educated.

SECOND SESSION

February 4 2010, 10pm

The German Master's home, Birmingham

OUR second meeting was on 4th February 2010. Dewani sent me a text message asking if I was free and we sent a few text messages back and forth. We also spoke on the phone later that evening.

He came to my address as before, again arriving late in the evening, about 10pm. On this occasion when he took off his shirt I could see his nipples were very sore and cut and bleeding. I didn't think it appropriate that we have the session as I was afraid to touch him, but Dewani was very keen to continue so we did. I stopped a few times during the session as the nipples started bleeding so badly. Out of protection I put on a pair of tight leather gloves, to protect myself of any infection with his blood. I asked him if I should stop, but he insisted that I continue, as he got extremely turned on by pain. He spent the night with me again, leaving at about 8.30-9am. He paid me à400 cash for this session.

THIRD SESSION

April 12 2010, 10pm

Presidential Kensington Apartments, Earls Court, London

OUR third meeting was on 17th April 2010. Dewani contacted me before this time asking for a session but I was unable to meet him, this was early April, I had already arranged to come down to London to meet up with friends over a weekend.

I contacted Dewani myself and suggested meeting up for a session as I was down in London anyway. I was meeting friends on Saturday afternoon, and another friend on Sunday, so suggested that we meet for a session on Saturday evening. Dewani was keen to do this and said that he would sort out a place for us to go to.

We did most of the arrangements a few days before we were due to meet. On Thursday 15th April I texted him seven times, and these messages went back and forth, so I think that was when most of the arrangements were made. The address where we arranged to meet was Presidential Kensington Apartments, Earls Court. We arranged to meet there later in the evening, around 9-10pm.

I drove to London in my car. I arrived in London in the afternoon, at about 3-4pm, and then met my friends. We went to a bar called Barcode in Vauxhall. I stayed there for the evening for some drinks, and then made my way back to Earls Court for my session with Dewani. I had brought some of my gear down with me for the session. I kept this in the boot of my car. I arrived at the apartments at about 10-11pm.

Prior to our meeting here Shrien told me that his surname was Dewani, as this was the name that the apartment was booked under. I told the receptionist I was here for Dewani and they showed me where I was going.

Dewani looked different this time. Like he had put on a little weight as he was quite swollen in the face.

He had already left my money out for me on the table in the living room, which I thought was odd as we don't usually settle payment until the end of our meetings.

This time Dewani came up with something different. He asked for a no-limit session. Normally limits are agreed beforehand with a safe word which was "red", but Dewani stated that he really trusted me, and that he would like to do other things, such as having his face slapped, and being humiliated and degraded in general, in particular he asked me to call him "Paki" during the session. I did not feel comfortable with it and only used the term on 2-3 occasions.

During the session he took cocaine and ketamine, his usage of drug would've been agreed prior to the session. There was somewhere in the region of 10 bags in the apartment. He sniffed the cocaine and ketamine and also rubbed cocaine onto his nipples on more than one occasion. At some stage during the session we moved to the bathroom where I made him kneel in the bath and urinate into a mug. Whilst he was doing this, he suggested I take a photograph of him, which I did with my iPhone, but he asked me not to show his face.

Whilst continuing the humiliation theme I made him take the active part and have sexual intercourse with me as I believed he had never performed that role previously. Dewani found this extremely difficult, he was unable to perform and struggled to maintain an erection.

In our previous sessions I had always taken the active part during intercourse, whilst he remained completely submissive.

At some point we chilled for a bit, he had bought some groceries and he ate a little, and we had a bit of a conversation. I could see that he was not a hundred percent OK, so I asked if everything was OK with the session, which he said it was, it was all fine.

He then said he had to tell me something. He either told me that he was engaged, or was about to become engaged and that he has to get married. I said that was fine, that a lot of my clients are married, which isn't a problem. I said if he felt comfortable he could have a double life, maybe see me a couple of times a year.

He said that she was a nice lovely girl, and that he liked her, but that he could not break out of it in any way because he would be disowned by the family. He also said that he needs to find a way out of it. He also told me that he had met another guy previously, that he could have fallen for him and he came close to telling his family about it, but didn't. He didn't go into any details.

We continued our session for a bit, and then went to bed. He was different in the morning. Very grumpy, rude even, and hardly spoke to me which was unusual. I took the à400 which was left on the table the previous evening and left. This was the last time I saw him.