French Algerian Medouni pursued her and they had a 17-year on-off relationship
The couple met at a funfair when Kouider was 18.
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They were also about to set fire to a carrier bag full of Sophie's written apologies, confessions and pleas for help when the fire brigade arrived. It was getting really mad.'įor two days after she died, the couple kept the body in a suitcase in their shed, uncertain what to do.īut the couple's attempts to cremate her body on the garden bonfire using nail polish remover as an accelerant meant that her corpse was too severely burnt for a precise cause to be established. She told jurors: 'He was putting her head under the water and sometimes he would put water on the towel in her mouth. The precise cause of her death may never be known.Pathologists believe she may have been drowned or suffered a blow to the head.Īccording to Kouider, Medouni tortured her in the bath, then demanded they have sex as she lay dead nearby. In a filmed 'confession', the emaciated and broken young woman admitted she had drugged Medouni so Mr Walton could sexually assault him. Kouider carried on shrieking and shaking her head as the judge consoled the family. Sophie's mother Catherine Devallonne had cried quietly to herself as she waited for the jury to come back.įollowing the conclusion of the trial, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, told Sophie's parents: 'I am absolutely sure that there was no truth whatsoever in the allegations that were made against your daughter.'
He wept quietly and stared at the floor as the verdicts were read out. Medouni was convicted on a majority of 10-2. The self-proclaimed 'fashion designer' was found guilty unanimously and burst into hysterics, saying 'no' and shaking her head. Kouider, who had ranted at her former lover throughout the trial, cried and shook her head in the dock before the verdicts were returned. Kouider and Medouni blamed each other for the murder in a cut-throat defence but were convicted by an Old Bailey jury after a week of deliberations. Sophie Lionnet was a shy au pair who became trapped in her killers' violent, paranoid world Her statement was a reference to Kouider having taken shower and shaved her body after the murder, saying she needed to 'clean her sin'. No one, no God will ever forgive you both for what you have done to our daughter.' No amount of shaving will ever cleanse your soul. 'We have now been tortured ourselves, forced to listen to Sophie's last moments, her sobs and her crying.'Īddressing Kouider directly, the furious mother said: 'Sabrina. They starved her, tortured her and broke her until she could no longer fight. Speaking after the verdicts, Sophie's mother Catherine Devallonne said: 'These monsters repeatedly beat Sophie.
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The couple were convicted of murder today after an often-disturbing trial heard how they became convinced their nanny was spying on them for the mother's former Boyzone member ex. A chilling image shows gaunt-looking nanny Sophie Lionnet just days before she was murdered by her employers, as the victim's mother branded her killers 'monsters' who 'starved, tortured and broke' her daughter.įrench au pair Miss Lionnet was waterboarded and beaten to death at the London home of Sabrina Kouider and her partner Ouissem Medouni after being put through brutal interrogations which were recorded by the paranoid pair.
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