'You owe me sex!' What millionaire businesswoman shouted at British boyfriend during row in Paris restaurant - hours before she was killed in their hotel room

• Ian Griffin, 45, on Paris holiday with fiancee Kinga Legg, 36, in 2009
• Told court she took antidepressant pills from him to 'become intimate'
• She then loudly demanded sex during dinner sparking a row, he claims
• Says argument continued in Bristol hotel where Ms Legg's body was found
• Claims to have no memory of fight saying he blacked out beforehand

An argument about sex in a crowded restaurant ended with a millionaire businesswoman being bludgeoned to death by her British boyfriend in a five star Paris hotel room, a court heard today.

Ian Griffin, 45, broke down in tears as he described how his row with Kinga Legg, 36, escalated on what had otherwise been 'a fantastic visit' to the French capital.

On the second day of his murder trial at Paris Assizes, Griffin insisted that he had never intended to kill his fiancée.

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Ian Griffin, 45, said former girlfriend Kinga Legg, 36, kept antidepressant pills from him in a bid to 'be intimate', before the couple got into a public row in which she demanded sex

But he admitted 'cleaning up' their £1000-a-night room at the five star Bristol Hotel for up to six hours while Ms Legg's corpse was still inside, at one point contemplating 'smuggling a vacuum cleaner in'.

Recalling the start of their vicious row at the Bound restaurant, off the Champs Elysee, in May 2009, Griffin said Ms Legg shouted: 'You owe me sex'.

Griffin shouted back 'My God, not here!', as he explained how medication had dampened his libido. 

The couple, who had been due to marry in Monaco the following August, had agreed a pact in which Griffin was not allowed to contact former girlfriends, but Ms Legg still felt frustrated. 

Ms Legg withheld eight of the anti-depressant pills Griffin used in a bid to 'be intimate with me', said Griffin, who was left with just two pills.

'She wanted sex and expressed it loudly, and when I asked her to be quiet she got even more angry, so I shouted "That's It!", said Griffin, who faces up to 30 years in prison.

'I was so upset too, as we were having a fantastic trip and it ruined everything in just one minute,' he added.

The pair made their own way back to the Bristol, where, after a vodka in the bar, Griffin claims he opened the door of their room, to be confronted by Ms Legg saying: 'Why did you leave me alone? How dare you leave me alone in Paris.'

Griffin, originally from Warrington, had intended to return to Britain straight away, he said, but instead the argument intensified, with furniture being broken and thrown about.

Griffin (pictured alongside current fiancee Tracey Baker) said Ms Legg shouted 'you owe me sex' while they were dining in a restaurant in Paris in 2009, sparking a bitter row

Griffin says he argued with Ms Legg in the bedroom of the five-star Bristol Hotel, Paris (pictured), but blacked out. When he woke he claims he found blood on the sheets, but had no memory of attacking Ms Legg

Griffin said 'everything went black' at that point, but 'I woke up the next day, and looked at the room, it was terrible. 

'I spent the day cleaning the room. I was going to get Kinga to smuggle in a vacuum cleaner. 

'I called out her name. I unmade the bed because I thought she was between the sheets. There was a big stain of blood. I didn't know she wasn't there. I thought she was in bed. I had no idea.

The court also heard that Ms Legg had told friends about her 'abusive relationship' with Griffin, and that the couple had been arrested

'I was really messed up. I was in such a state. All I was thinking of was getting the room cleaned up. The TV was broken, everything was broken.'

Asked by presiding Judge Didier Safar if he had seen photos of Ms Legg's corpse, which was found in a bath with around 100 bruises on it, Griffin said 'No: I only noticed she has a black eye'.

Griffin said he did not think Ms Legg was dead until around six and a half hours after he woke up on May 24th, the day after their restaurant meal. 

The Judge said: 'That means you remained five or six hours in the presence of a corpse in a bedroom covered in blood', to which Griffin replied: 'Yes'. 

Griffin admitted that his 'priority when I woke up was to clean the room', but when he finally saw Ms Legg's body lying on the floor, his reaction was to 'warm her up' in the bath. 

'She was very cold,' added Griffin, who said he screamed: 'Kinga, Kinga, Kinga, please don't go, please don't go.

'I didn't know she was dead. It was confusing. I moved her arm, but somehow thought if I put her in the bath it would warm her up. She was stiff.

'When he finally realised she was in fact dead, a tearful Griffin said: 'I wanted to die. I couldn't cope with what had happened.'

He thought of jumping out of the window of the fifth floor room, but then decided he wanted to commit suicide 'back home' after seeing his parents for the last time. 

The prosecution alleges that Griffin was 'thinking lucidly' because he put a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door of the room, and booked an extra two nights, before heading off in his Porsche 911. 

Judge Safar said: 'You did not want Kinga Legg's body to be discovered before you had put sufficient distance between yourself and the Bristol'. Griffin replied: 'Yes'. 

Using crutches, and dressed in a dark grey suit, Griffin was cross-examined with the help of an interpreter as members of Ms Legg's family looked on. 

Ms Legg, originally from Poland, was briefly married to an English civil servant called Peter Legg but also used her maiden name Wolf.

She regularly told friends about her 'abusive relationship' with Griffin, the court heard. 

The couple were briefly arrested in 2008 after Legg attacked Griffin with a knife, but there were no charges. Legg's parents believe Griffin was attracted to their daughter because of her fortune, which she had built through a tomato export company. 

Griffin, who had owned tanning salons and a chain of gadget stores, was declared bankrupt in 2006, although he claims to have since rebuilt his fortune. 

Griffin walks into court supported by his Dragons' Den girlfriend

When Griffin found Ms Legg's body, he said he didn't realise she was dead at first, and put her in a bath to warm up while he placed a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door and cleaned the room

Ms Legg was later found floating in the bathtub of the couple's £1,000-a-night room with almost 100 bruises covering her body (file picture)

Ms Legg ran a successful firm exporting more than 300million tomatoes a year from Poland to major companies such as McDonald's, Tesco and Carrefour. 

Her company, Vegex, had a UKbase in Oxshott, Surrey, where she and Griffin rented a £3million executive mansion. 

In the days after Ms Legg'sdeath, police on both sides of the Channel followed a trail of credit card transactions to Cheshire, where the search for Griffin ended a week later in woodland outside Macclesfield in a flimsy tent. 

Griffin's parents, Bernard, an architect, and Janet, an interior designer, who live near Warrington, made regular trips to see him in France, but have not so far attended court. 

Griffin's trial is expected to run until Friday.