Oxford Uni worker and US colleague ‘stabbed hairdresser more than 70 times as part of sick sexual fantasy’

AN OXFORD University employee and a American professor are accused of murdering a 26-year-old hair stylist in Chicago as part of a sick sexual fantasy.

Andrew Warren, 56, and US academic Wyndham Lathem, 42, face murder charges over the savage killing of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, who was was found with more than 70 stab wounds.

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Prosecutors said Lathem and Warren used an internet chat room to discuss their fantasies and planned to kill someone and then themselves.

According to police and autopsy reports, Mr Cornell-Duranleau, from Michigan, was nearly decapitated in the brutal attack.

His throat was slit and his pulmonary artery torn. He had been stabbed 47 times in his back, chest, shoulder and abdomen.

He was also stabbed and cut in his arms, chin, neck, hands and wrists.

Warren and Lathem have been charged with first degree murder.

According to reports, Mr Cornell-Duranleau was in a relationship with Lathem and staying at his Chicago apartment.

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Prosecutors said the victim went to sleep on July 26 and Lathem texted Warren that it was time to kill him.

Lathem allegedly plunged a 6-inch dry-wall saw knife into Mr Cornell-Duranleau’s chest and neck.

Prosecutor Natosha Toller added that victim woke up and began screaming and fighting back.

Ms Toller said Lathem then yelled at Warren for help.

Warren ran over and covered the victim’s mouth, then hit him with a heavy lamp, before leaving the room, returning with a kitchen knife and joined in the stabbing frenzy, it is alleged.

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Ms Toller said that the victim’s last words were: "Wyndham, what are you doing?"

On gay dating app Grindr, Warren said he wanted to find someone dominant and also claimed "he had no limits".

Screenshots of his profile, seen by The Sun, show he was registered under the names “Anything Goes”, “No Limits” and “GoneForever2015”.

Lathem was an associate professor at Chicago’s prestigious Northwestern University and specialises in research surrounding the Black Death, but has since been sacked.

On July 27, CCTV caught the pair leaving his high-rise condo, two days after Warren was reported missing in the UK.

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Warren, an accounts worker who works at Somerville College, flew to the US - on his first visit - without telling anyone.

After the pair left the scene, police launched a nationwide manhunt - lasting eight days.

They were described as "armed and dangerous", but eventually peacefully handed themselves in.