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Police quiz man over murder of French students
British police were given extra time to question a man on Tuesday in their widening probe into the brutal murder of two French students last week.
- Reuters
- Published: 21:15 July 8, 2008
London: British police were given extra time to question a man on Tuesday in their widening probe into the brutal murder of two French students last week.
The 33-year-old man turned himself in on Monday but was taken to hospital to receive treatment for severe burns before questioning began.
Detectives later said magistrates had granted them an extra 36 hours to quiz the suspect.
Bio-engineering students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were bound, gagged and repeatedly stabbed in Bonomo's south London apartment.
Police called it the most frenzied, brutal and horrific murder they have investigated.
Bonomo was stabbed nearly 200 times, with up to 80 of the wounds inflicted after he was dead.
Ferez had nearly 50 knife wounds. The killer or killers then set fire to the apartment in an attempt to destroy evidence.
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