A slave who wanted to scare off his dominatrix’s boyfriend but snapped and committed bloody murder will spend at least 15 years behind bars.
Stuart Lindsay Heron waited in the shadows of a Melbourne apartment building car park for his target, Nick Cameron, to take his little dog Misty for a walk.
Stuart Lindsay Heron (pictured centre) was sentenced to 22 years behind bars over the death of Nick Cameron, after he beat him to death with a hammer outside his apartment in Melbourne
He was holding a hammer and a knife when he pounced on Mr Cameron next to the 39-year-old man’s red car.
Heron claimed he brought the hammer to destroy explicit videos that Mr Cameron was threatening to distribute of his master, dominatrix Heide Bos.
But instead, after a struggle Heron snapped and bashed Mr Cameron with the hammer ‘ferociously and brutally,’ Justice Michael Croucher told the Supreme Court.
‘This went on for 10 harrowing minutes, Mr Cameron had no chance,’ the judge said on Friday.
Justice Croucher said Mr Cameron’s injuries, which included multiple stab and blunt force head wounds, were extensive and shocking.
When he was found by police, wedged between a concrete wall and the car, Mr Cameron was ‘covered in blood, panting heavily and groaning’.
Heron said he had become infatuated with Bos after meeting her on FetLife, a kink and fetish website, about six weeks before the killing.
He became her slave and offered to do ‘anything at all’ for Bos.
Bos told Heron about her relationship with Mr Cameron, including that he was abusive, had raped her and threatened to share intimate videos.
The pair concocted a plan to scare Mr Cameron to ensure he left town.
Heron started surveilling Mr Cameron, visiting his apartment building several times to track his movements and stealing a lockbox with his victim’s keys.
After an argument with Mr Cameron, on July 9, 2021, Bos gave Heron the go-ahead to confront him.
Nick Cameron (pictured) was killed outside his apartment in Melbourne on July 10, 2021, after he was bashed to death by Stuart Heron
She lured her boyfriend out of his apartment, to where Heron was laying in wait for Mr Cameron in the private car park.
Neighbours heard Mr Cameron yell ‘no, no’ and ‘stop’ as Heron attacked him in a ‘frenzied’ and ‘sickening fashion’, Justice Croucher said.
Heron was arrested trying to leave the apartment building via a lift, with a blood-soaked knife found on the floor next to him.
He was found carrying a bloody hammer, silver hand-cuffs, a dog’s leash, a multi-tool and a lighter.
Heron pleaded guilty to Mr Cameron’s murder about two months before a trial was due to begin.
He was emotionless and stared straight ahead at Justice Croucher, as he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Heron must serve 15 years before he can apply for parole and has already served two years of his sentence.
Dominatrix Heide Bos (pictured right) told Mr Heron to scare off her boyfriend after she alleged Mr Cameron had abused and raped her and had threatened to share intimate videos of her
Mr Cameron’s family hugged each other inside court after hearing his murderer’s sentence.
A man yelled at Heron: ‘That’s life for you son, you’ll never get out of it, you’re a failure.’
Bos was jailed for up to six years and three months earlier this year, after admitting manslaughter over her complicity in arranging the attack.
***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk