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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court sentenced a man to six years in jail after he accidentally killed his girlfriend in a sex game of strangulation that turned horribly wrong, a court official said Wednesday.

Yu Ping, 22, grabbed his lover's throat for about a minute after sex last February. He only discovered something was wrong when his lover did not regain consciousness. Asphyxiation is widely believed to produce hallucinations that raise sexual pleasure. "Regardless that the activity was consensual, it must have been plain to him that what he was doing would place the deceased in considerable harm or even cause death," deputy High Court Judge Michael McMahon was quoted by newspapers on Wednesday as saying in his ruling.