Dr. Elvira Blakemore, 41, an NHS GP, says she and 57 year-old ladder entrepreneur James Edmund Austin used the cane on each other at least ten times at £3.65m Oak Manor, which sits in an exclusive private gated estate.
Father-of-five Mr. Austin, boss of BPS Access Solutions, which claims to be the UK's number one ladder company, told Croydon Crown Court he was the victim of a sudden attack which left the bedsheets covered in blood.
The couple had their engagement blessed in church earlier that day and invited guests to the house for a bbq and drinks, but according to Mr. Austin the evening was ruined by Dr. Blakemore's jealousy of his three grown-up sons from his first marriage.
"There had been snipes about my sons throughout and she referred to them as my 'daughters' as well as other insults and we both had quite a lot to drink," he explained.
"I went to bed and was more or less asleep when she entered the room raging and started hitting me with a garden cane.
"She was violently hitting me with the cane very many times on the back. There was a cut on my cheek also, but she just kept going and by the end there was blood on the bed."
He admitted previously taking the cane up to the bedroom as a joke about their mutual enjoyment of spanking, but insisted it had never been used before and was lying on top of the wardrobe.
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Mr. Austin did not initially respond to the blows, claiming he was too drunk and drowsy to fully appreciate what was going on.
"I was concerned I was being provoked and set-up and it was me that would be arrested so I did not respond and went downstairs.
"There was a further attack in the lounge. Elvira appeared in the room and she had another go with the same cane.
"When the cane broke she poured some wine on my back and said: 'Alcohol is good for the wounds.'
"There were a lot of marks on my back, there were twenty-five to thirty-five hits. I was hit as hard as she possibly could hit me. You can see how bad the injuries are.
"I was shocked at how bad my injuries were and the ambulance staff said I should go to A & E, but I did not want to leave the twins."
The pair had become engaged during a romantic stay at Paris's luxury five-star George V hotel and on the day of the blessing Mr. Austin bought a £20,000 ring and booked a £7,000 celebratory ten-day holiday.
Around midnight, according to Dr. Blakemore, she was naked and astride Mr. Austin on his insistence, reigning down blows with the cane, inflicting injuries, which she then poured champagne over.
Dr. Blakemore, of Bournemouth Road, Holland-on-Sea, Essex, who until recently owned cosmetic surgeries in Switzerland and at her home, has pleaded not guilty to causing actual bodily harm on June 7, last year.
She also denies a separate count of common assault on July 8 at the five-bedroom house in Wood Way, Locksbottom Village, which sits in one acre of grounds and has an indoor swimming pool, gym and sauna.
"On that occasion Dr. Blakemore lost her temper and threw wine onto the carpet," explained prosecutor Mr. Dennis Kavanaugh. "Mr. Austin went to bed and she went upstairs.
"She followed him and repeatedly punched him in the left arm and punched him in the face and he ended up with a cut on his chin and called the police and locked himself in the en suite bathroom."
"She expressed an interest in Fifty Shades Of Grey and I put it in her Christmas stocking and we both read it and she bought the second and third books herself.
"We went to Anne Summers in Bluewater Shopping Centre and bought certain items. One was called a spanking paddle and she produced certain stuff from her suitcase during the trip to France."
Mr. Austin also gave her a £500 Anne Summers gift voucher and bought a special Christmas Cracker from the sex shop, which contained lacy underwear.
She wore the underwear under a skimpy Mrs Santa costume she donned at Christmas when Mr. Austin's three sons were visiting the house.
The court also heard Mr. Austin signed a gift: 'Personal spanker to naughty Dr. Elvira' and she signed-off an email to him as: 'Personal Spanker.'
She administered anti-wrinkle botox to him and Mr. Austin admitted he also had the injections before meeting her as well as facial fillers and liposuction.
Mr. Austin drives a £157,000, six-litre Mercedes Sls supercar and Dr. Blakemore claims he told her: "I don't want a big bird. That's why I have a small two-seater car."
He denied making hurtful comments about her figure post pregnancy and encouraging her to have cosmetic surgery herself.
The businessman told the jury spanking was Dr. Blakemore's idea and she was usually the recipient and the cane was never used until the attack on him.
"At the start it was mostly her receiving, it did not do a lot for me. It began with just hands and then the paddle and Elvira was the recipient."
She even discussed their sex life in front of a friend of Mr. Austin's, who in turn bought the couple a small leather cat-o-nine tails whip.
In January last year he cancelled their joint bank account. "She made some very extravagant purchases, seven hundred pounds on make-up from John Lewis and two thousand pounds on a mattress.
"She also said she would bring men back to the house and f*** them."
Before the alleged assaults Dr. Blakemore's lawyer sent Mr. Austin a letter demanding he hand the house over to her, pay a £100,000 lump sum, plus 20% of his income.
"She sees the children as a meal ticket," he told the jury, denying he set-up the cane beating to frame his ex.
The jury were shown a photograph police took of his back, which was covered in red marks from his shoulder blades down to the waistline, which Mr. Austin said took two weeks to heal.
He denied looking at the injuries immediately afterwards and telling Dr. Blakemore: "If I called the police and showed them the marks what would you do then?"
Officers were called to the address and the defendant arrested, but Mr. Austin initially dropped his complaint for the sake of their relationship and the family.
In March, last year he received a police caution for assaulting Dr. Blakemore by grabbing her wrists while she was texting. "She was goading me quite theatrically," Mr. Austin said.
The couple are also involved in bitter Family Court proceedings and currently share custody of the twins until a final determination after a social worker's report.
Earlier Mr. Kavanaugh told the jury: "Police were summoned to the house after Mr. Austin rang them and said he had been seriously assaulted in a sustained fashion to his back by Dr. Blakemore.
"He said she took a bamboo cane and repeatedly hit him across his back and the officers saw a series of marks on his back."
Police seized three bamboo sticks and arrested Dr. Blakemore. "She said it was a completely malicious allegation and that he had consented to receiving the injuries and that they were of a sexual nature.
"Mr. Austin said whilst the couple had experimented sexually they had not hit each other with a cane and only used a paddle lightly and there were no injuries.
"Later he said he did not want her prosecuted because it was not good for the relationship or the children."
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