A man found guilty of murdering Melbourne sex worker Johanna Martin will be sentenced on Friday. Source: AAP
A MURDERER who tried to explain away the death of a Melbourne prostitute as an erotic asphyxiation fantasy turned tragedy faces a lengthy jail term after running a "scurrilous and time-wasting" defence.
A jury rejected Steve Constantinou's claim that he accidentally strangled sex worker Johanna "Jazzy O" Martin with leather reins attached to a dog-collar while the pair were watching porn.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Phillip Priest will sentence Constantinou, 49, for murder on Friday after describing his version of events as preposterous.
"In my observation his defence was scurrilous and time wasting," Justice Priest said during Constantinou's plea hearing this week.
"Anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have rejected his evidence."
The prosecution said Constantinou murdered Ms Martin, a 65-year-old sex worker and stripper also known as Honi, in his Port Melbourne apartment in October 2011 to avoid repaying thousands of dollars.
After killing Ms Martin, Constantinou took her jewellery and sold it at a Footscray pawn shop, before punting at a nearby pub.
He later dumped her body in bushes in Lorimer Street.
The pair struck up a friendship after meeting at the South Melbourne markets in early 2011.
Defence barrister Shane Tyrrell described Constantinou as a petty thief and gambling addict but said the killing was out of character.
He said Constantinou had mostly been a kind friend to Ms Martin.
Constantinou will be sentenced on Friday morning.
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