Prostitute injected Google executive with heroin on his yacht and left him to die pleads guilty

A prostitute who injected a Google executive with an overdose of heroin has admitted involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs.

Forrest Timothy Hayes was found dead on a luxury yacht after Alix Tichelman, 28, injected him with the drug.

Tichelman, a high-end call girl, was sentenced to six years in prison at Santa Cruz County Superior Court yesterday.

Hayes had hired Tichelman several times before, and they were doing drugs and having sex the night he died, authorities said.

Larry Biggam, Tichelman’s defence attoey, said: ‘It was an accidental overdose between two consenting adults.’

Tichelman admitted involuntary manslaughter (Picture: AP)

Surveillance footage shows Tichelman gathering her belongings, stepping over Hayes’ body, finishing a glass of wine, closing a curtain and then leaving the yacht.

It also shows her trying to revive him in a panic as he slipped into unconsciousness in the small craft harbour in Santa Cruz.

Deputy District Attoey Rafael Vazquez said: ‘There was an obvious reaction that showed she didn’t intend to kill.’

Vazquez said the charges were filed over the objections of Hayes’ family, who feared a public trial would further embarrass a wife and children traumatized by exposure of the Google executive’s double life. Hayes was the father of five, and two of his children are in elementary school.

‘They just wanted this to go away,’ the prosecutor said. ‘But we had a duty to pursue the case.’