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Trial begins for Britons charged with murdering two French students
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The trial of two Britons accused of murdering two French students in June 2008 opens in London. Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both 23, were bound and stabbed hundreds of times in the flat they rented in New Cross, southeast London.
By FRANCE 24 (with wires) (text)
Aurore Cloe DUPUIS / Claire PRYDE (video)

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The trial of two Britons accused of murdering two French students in June 2008 opens today in the Old Bailey, London.

 

Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both 23, were found June 29, 2008, bound and stabbed a total of 240 times in the studio flat they rented at Sterling Gardens in New Cross, southeast London.

 

The accused, Nigel Edward Farmer, 34, et Daniel "Dano" Sonnex, 23, have been charged with murder, sequestration, arson and burglary.  Both have pleaded not guilty.

 

Farmer was arrested a short time after the murders and was immediately hospitalised for burns on his arms and hands. Sonnex, who Scotland Yard described as "dangerous", was arrested some days later.

 

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