21 November 2008 - 17H31
- France - UK

British suspects deny notorious French student murders
Two men accused of killing two 23-year-old French students (pictured) at their London flat on June 29th pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and three other charges, paving the way for a full trial next year.
By AFP (text)

Two men accused of the horrific murder of a pair of French students in London in June pleaded not guilty Friday, opening the way for the case to go to a full trial.
  
Nigel Edward Farmer, 33, and Daniel Sonnex, 23, denied all charges against them over the killings of Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both 23, whose mutilated bodies were found in a burnt-out flat in southeast London on June 29.
  
The students had been bound, repeatedly stabbed in the head, neck, torso and back and set alight, in a case which shocked even hardened murder squad detectives.
  
Farmer and Sonnex, who have been charged with murder, false imprisonment, burglary and arson, were remanded in custody until a full trial starting on April 21 next year.

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