Man involved in bondage death due in court

LYNN – A Cape Cod man is slated to offer a plea or opt to stand trial next week for his alleged role in the burial of a British man who suffocated during a 2006 bondage tryst in a Lynn home.Rhode Island Attorney General’s spokeswoman Beryl Kenyon said Scott Vincent has the option of entering a plea Monday in 6th District Court or standing trial beginning April 4 for failing to report a burial.Vincent pleaded innocent to that misdemeanor charge on March 9, 2007. He is only one of a handful of people to be charged in the last century under a law that had its origins in state efforts to keep residents from burying dead loved ones on their property.Susan Perkins, Vincent’s attorney, declined to comment Thursday on his upcoming court appearances.”I’m trying to avoid a media circus,” she said.Vincent’s name also appears in a wrongful death suit filed four months after Adrian Exley suffocated in a full body rubber suit he voluntarily donned as part of a gay sex bondage encounter with Vincent and Gary LeBlanc.Rhode Island’s coroner determined Exley, 32, asphyxiated to death while wearing the tight-fitting garment on April 23, 2006 – four days after he traveled from England to Lynn to meet oil executive and Wolcott Road resident LeBlanc after encountering the 48-year-old Lynn man on a gay bondage Web site.Exley’s loved ones grew concerned after he missed his flight back to England. They contacted first Boston, then Lynn police, who launched a missing persons investigation.Police searched LeBlanc’s home on June 22. He shot himself the following morning in Claremont, N.H. According to the suit, information provided by Vincent and details in LeBlanc’s suicide note led police to discover Exley’s body the following week wrapped in a sleeping bag and buried in a shallow grave.”We discarded all of his items, clothing and ID in the hope that he would never be found,” the lawsuit quoted the suicide note.