A prison uniform was pulled out of a bag by a barrister and waved in front of a High Court judge yesterday as the motor racing chief Max Mosley fought to disprove the News of the World’s claim that he took part in a Nazi sex orgy.

The black-and-white striped two-piece outfit, resembling a costume from a comedy sketch, had been bought from a joke shop to be worn at an S&M party for Mr Mosley, son of the wartime fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.

Four of the five women who took part in the day-long spanking session gave evidence after the fifth accepted money from the Sunday newspaper to smuggle a camera into a basement flat that Mr Mosley rented for punishment games.

A full-time dominatrix, described as Woman A, who organised the party, was halfway through her evidence when Mr Mosley’s counsel, David Sherborne, produced the joke prisoner garb. “I’m not going to try it on,” he said. Woman A, a cheerful blonde who laughed and giggled enthusiastically through much of her recollections, said: “It would suit you.”

Mr Sherborne asked: “Were these uniforms in any way intended to replicate concentration camp uniforms?”

She replied: “No. Nothing Nazi about the scenario.” She confirmed that she would see Mr Mosley about twice a month and that he paid up to £500 a time for her S&M services.

She said that she was passionate about the “spanking scene”, describing the feeling after a bout of corporal punishment as “the best thing in the world”. She also hosted regular events in North London, where up to 30 men paid as much as £200 each to watch her dress up as a judge and get women punished by characters posing as guards.

The Nazi allegations had set back her professional life. “I didn’t work for nearly two months after all the exposure. The last thing in the world you want to do is to bend over when your head is completely messed up about this. When this came out people recognised me from my stance, the way I stand when I’m beating,” she said, her hand instinctively making a lashing motion as she looked up at a grim-faced Mr Justice Eady.

Woman B, a German, said that she brought a Luftwaffe jacket to wear for her role as a prison guard. “It was a party, it was fun,” she said. Her voice broke, however, as she insisted: “I am very upset and offended because it’s an insult if a newspaper equals German to Nazi. My grandparents were not members of the party and it makes me so cross and angry.”

Woman D, a PhD student in her late twenties, burst into tears when she recalled her disbelief at being betrayed by her friend. “One thing I try to make sure of is that everything is private,” she said.

Woman D explained that it had been her idea to stage a fantasy session in which she was interrogated by a foreign power whose language she was unable to understand. “The German language sounded guttural and sexy, particularly with Woman B saying it,” she said. She accepted that she had been for paid trips to Monaco with Mr Mosley but denied being financially dependent on him.

She had managed to keep her anonymity in spite of the article because the newspaper used only pictures of her bottom. “Unless you are particularly familiar with the shape of it, you wouldn’t know it’s me.”

Mr Mosley spoke in a cod German accent during one of his S&M orgies, the court heard. The 68-year-old racing chief, who was administering physical punishments to a group of women, sounded like one of Hitler’s officers in a bad war film, counsel for the News of the World claimed.

Mr Mosley, whose claim for damages rests largely on disproving the alleged Nazi theme of the sex games, said that there was nothing wrong with using phrases like: “Jah! Ve get zem to do vat ve vant.” He was giving his second day of evidence at the hearing, which will consider whether the right to privacy extends to sado-masochism and paid-for sex.

Some of the scenarios involved Mr Mosley and a woman shouting orders in German at other women, who were being given beatings. Those being spanked could not speak the foreign language. At one point Mr Mosley can be heard saying on tape-recordings of the punishment sessions: “Zay need more of zee punishment I zink.”

Mark Warby, QC, for the newspaper, said: “It’s as if you were playing some German officer in some World War Two movie.” Mr Mosley said: “I have got to say it in English because the way it was working it needed to be understood. I said it in a silly German accent. How World War Two comes into it is completely beyond me.” At another point, Woman B, the German, suggests putting a blonde in a “wagen”. Mr Warby said this word was used in the Nazi era to refer to the transports to concentration camps.

Mr Mosley said: “Wagen is the general term for a vehicle in German. To try and say wagen is Nazi is just, I wouldn’t know what to say.” Woman B, who has heard the tape, said that she heard the word as not “wagen” but “lager” which means “storage”. However, she accepted that “lager” could also mean “camp”.

Woman B tells one of the prisoners to “shut up you black bitch” but Mr Mosley insisted the word “schwarze” in this context referred to black hair rather than it being a racist term.

The hearing continues.

dkennedy@thetimes.co.uk

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