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A post-mortem examination found Ms Connolly had more than 40 injuries, and died from alcohol intoxication and blunt force injuries.
She was left on the stairs in a "dreadful state", prosecutors said.
David Mason QC alleged Mr Broadhurst attacked Ms Connolly to "teach her a lesson" after he may have found out she was talking to two ex-boyfriends and a new man.
Mr Broadhurst said he sprayed her face with bleach "because I didn't want her to... look a mess", but prosecutors claim he was trying to "cover his tracks".
"Whatever may have started willingly," Mr Mason said, "there is no way that Natalie either consented or was able to consent to what John Broadhurst did to her after that, leading to her untimely, unseemly and tragic death."
She was left on the stairs in a "dreadful state", prosecutors said.
David Mason QC alleged Mr Broadhurst attacked Ms Connolly to "teach her a lesson" after he may have found out she was talking to two ex-boyfriends and a new man.
Mr Broadhurst said he sprayed her face with bleach "because I didn't want her to... look a mess", but prosecutors claim he was trying to "cover his tracks".
"Whatever may have started willingly," Mr Mason said, "there is no way that Natalie either consented or was able to consent to what John Broadhurst did to her after that, leading to her untimely, unseemly and tragic death."
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The defendant, John Broadhurst, 40, told him he had last seen Ms Connolly at about 02:00 GMT and also that she "liked rough sex", Mr Hill said.
Mr Broadhurst denies murdering Ms Connolly, 26, at their home in Kinver.
Birmingham Crown Court previously heard she had been found in a pool of blood at the foot of the stairs on 18 December 2016. Jurors heard the couple had earlier drunk heavily and taken drugs.
Mr Broadhurst denies murdering Ms Connolly, 26, at their home in Kinver.
Birmingham Crown Court previously heard she had been found in a pool of blood at the foot of the stairs on 18 December 2016. Jurors heard the couple had earlier drunk heavily and taken drugs.
Mr Hill said when he responded to the 999 call at 09:28 GMT he found Mr Broadhurst "standing in the doorway", of the couple's home in Staffordshire and added: "I was quite openly invited into the hall".
"He was upset and looked tired. He had clearly not long got up," he said.
Asked by prosecutor David Mason QC what happened when he pronounced Ms Connolly dead, Mr Hill said: "He [Broadhurst] came into the room once to ask me what had happened.
"I asked him to return back into the living room, which he did straight away. He then proceeded to tell me that she liked 'rough sex'."
Mr Hill told the court: "He didn't seem unduly upset. He seemed concerned."
"I asked him to return back into the living room, which he did straight away. He then proceeded to tell me that she liked 'rough sex'."
Mr Hill told the court: "He didn't seem unduly upset. He seemed concerned."
Broadhurst admitted manslaughter by gross negligence by leaving her unsupervised and failing to contact the emergency services in circumstances where "a risk of death as a result of her condition would have been obvious".
Explaining the prosecution's decision to accept Broadhurst's plea to a lesser charge, David Mason QC told the court Miss Connolly's family were "consulted and are entirely content with the view that the prosecution have taken".
Explaining the prosecution's decision to accept Broadhurst's plea to a lesser charge, David Mason QC told the court Miss Connolly's family were "consulted and are entirely content with the view that the prosecution have taken".
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