I can't bring myself to post the image of Sophie 2 days before her murder. I was so shocked.
This is the location of the bonfire:
Not at all LB, what you've done is brilliant with the spoiler box.Sorry, I must have been posting the pic before I saw your post. I can delete if you want.
CourtNewsUK (@CourtNewsUK) | TwitterSabrina Kouider, and Ouissem Medouni, both guilty of murdering 21-year-old nanny Sophie Lionnet and burning her body on garden bonfire
Nanny killers Sabrina Kouider, 35, and Ouissem Medouni, 40, will not be sentenced until June 26
Kouider burst into loud crying and shook her head as the jury returned the unanimous guilty verdict. She began to speak, saying 'I want to-' before the judge told her to 'sit down please.'
Sabrina Kouider, who had ranted at her former lover throughout the trial, wept and shook her head in the dock as the jury filed into court. As the verdicts were announced she hysterically sobbed 'no, no, no.' Medouni stared at the floor
Medouni was trying to burn her corpse with caustic acid in a bid to eliminate any trace that Sophie had ever existed.
‘He had even scattered bits of cooked chicken on top of Sophie’s charred body as part of the elaborate charade.
What a day - 3 big guilty verdicts in UK cases and a new Websleuths came back just in time!
By way of derogation from a procedure which, centered on the prosecution and the defense, does not provide for the voice of the victims and their families, Hilliard JA had the evidence of Catherine Devallonné and then Patrick read in French and in English. Lionnet, the parents of the au pair. He asked the accused to listen to them calmly.
" Sophie had only started her life. Nobody had the right to take it away, " said the mother. If your father has completed:
"Sophie could not bear to see others suffering, and it breaks my heart to know that it is she (...) who has suffered in silence, cashing the blows and receiving wounds incompatible with life. "
The parents described their lives ravaged, without sleep, without joy of living . " People avoid us, others do not know how to be with us, others do not know what to say . Patrick Lionnet described his futile struggle to prevent the photos of the body burned, "a nose and fingers identifiable as those of a human body" , eclipses the smiling clichés of his daughter. Catherine Devallonné, her struggle to try to erase the image of Sophie " struggling to take her last breath, terrified in the bathtub", in the hands of "these monsters they broke it until she can not fight anymore. "
Each in their own way, they painted the portrait of Sophie Lionnet, a girl " sweet, naive, shy and always smiling" . Raised in a family where "financial means were limited but she lacked nothing," she " accepted things as they were", but she was thirsty for justice. "Sophie was keenly interested in the fate of the Jewish people during the war, said her mother. His most valuable book was Anne Frank's life. With her class she had made a trip to Auschwitz. It was his only trip abroad, before England.
Affaire Sophie Lionnet : le couple qui employait la jeune fille au pair reconnu coupable de son meurtre
‘She asked me to meet one evening, which I thought was a date,’ recalls Mark. ‘But when I arrived there were 11 other men there, many of whom seemed to be under the same impression. It was a sales meeting for a pyramid scheme selling phone lines. Several guys left but I stayed because she intrigued me.
‘I ended up buying into the company. She asked me to sign up, saying it was only £225. It turned out to be £800, plus another fee, plus monthly fees. That should have been a warning to me.
Despite Kouider’s abuse, Mark stayed with her for two years, until she left him a few days after he moved to LA and, eventually, cut off contact. He continued sending her thousands of dollars while hiring a succession of lawyers to try to get her to agree to a paternity test. ‘For so long I’ve considered the baby my son, but I honestly in my heart don’t know. Finally I stopped sending money’
It was when Mark cut off financial support that she turned on him. ‘She contacted some of my biggest clients – major international music stars – telling them I was a paedophile. That’s been very hard for me to get over. I can’t think of a worse accusation.