Muslim couple who murdered French nanny and burned body jailed for life

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Couple who murdered French nanny and burned body jailed for life

The Standard, June 25, 2018:
A French couple who tortured their nanny to death before burning her body on a bonfire in a bid to get away with murder have both been jailed for at least 30 years. Sabrina Kouider, 35, and Ouissem Medouni, 40, subjected 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet to weeks of punishing interrogations to extract a false confession that she had betrayed them.

A French couple who tortured their nanny to death before burning her body on a bonfire in a bid to get away with murder have both been jailed for at least 30 years.

Sabrina Kouider, 35, and Ouissem Medouni, 40, subjected 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet to weeks of punishing interrogations to extract a false confession that she had betrayed them.

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The couple were warped by Kouider’s obsession that her ex-boyfriend, Boyzone founder Mark Walton, had been working with Sophie to spy on their family.

In heartbreaking recordings and videos, Kouider and Medouni threatened to have Sophie thrown in prison if she did not confess to her supposed betrayal.


Sabrina Kouider after being taken into police custody

In her final days, Sophie was filmed looking gaunt, traumatised, and “broken” as she offered the ‘confession’ she believed would convince the couple to let her go.

She had been beaten with electric cable by Kouider, and repeatedly held under water in the bath by Medouni. It is believed she was either beaten to death or drowned at the couple’s Wimbledon home in September last year.

Medouni, a former financial analyst, was caught red-handed burning the young French woman’s remains on a bonfire in the garden, while barbecuing pieces of chicken nearby in a bid to cover the smell.

At a trial at the Old Bailey, Medouni and aspiring fashion designer Kouider blamed each other for Sophie’s death but were both convicted by the jury of murder.


Sophie Lionnet, who was tortured by her employers, two days before her death (PA)

Sentencing them to life in prison with minimum terms of 30 years, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, the Recorder of London, said: “The suffering and terror you put her through before her death was prolonged and without pity.

“With conduct such as this, in all the circumstances of what happened to Sophie, I don’t think it matters who was the principle and who was the secondary party.

“Deliberate and sustained conduct like that has its origins in cruelty and a desire for revenge, which means the delusions have much less significance.”

The judge said the couple “knew what you were doing was very wrong”, telling them: “You reduced Sophie to a dreadful physical state where her spirit was entirely broken, and that’s an awful thing to do to another human being.”


Convicted and jailed: Ouissem Medouni

At court this morning, a letter Kouider had written to Sophie herself was read out, saying she was “deeply sorry about what happened”.

Kouider said they had shared good times “until things went terribly wrong and ended up in this horrendous tragedy”.

“I wish I could turn the clock back and it never happened and you would still be alive with us today”, she wrote. “Sophie, I wish things had been different, I hope you get some peace with God”.

Kouider’s obsession with Mark Walton, now a successful LA music producer, began after their two year relationship ended in 2013, as she blamed him for problems in her own life.


A court has heard that Sophie Lionnet was beaten to death before being thrown on a bonfire (Metropolitan Police)

She made wild accusations that he had used black magic against her, sexually abused Medouni, and drugged them both – claims the judge said were false.

Kouider, now diagnosed as suffering from a personality disorder, deliberately isolated Sophie as she enveloped her in the bizarre claims against Mr Walton.

Sophie’s mother Catherine Devallonne, who was in court alongside father Patrick Lionnet today, had begged Kouider to free her “fragile and beautiful” daughter in the weeks before the murder.

However, Kouider, obsessed with the idea that Sophie was “in league” with Mr Walton, held the helpless young woman prisoner for at least eight days before her death.

Angrily trying to extract information from Sophie, she and Medouni likened her to a Nazi, suggested she was “worse than a murderer”, and suggested she was facing up to 40 years in prison.

They murdered Sophie in the early hours of September 19 last year, and kept the body in a suitcase for nearly two days.

They initially settled on burning the body in the garden, but the plan was thwarted when a concerned neighbour called the fire brigade and firefighters discovered the charred remains.

Orlando Pownall QC, for Medouni, told the court Kouider “played on the weak” and was “physically and mentally dominant” in the relationship.

“She indoctrinated him as she others”, he said. “Initially he wanted to move on and not be besotted by the allegations made – by Ms Kouider was unwilling or unable to do so.

“It is plain that Mr Medouni was, in relation to her, weak.”

However, Icah Peart QC, for Kouider, argued her actions have to be mitigated by her obvious mental health problems.

One of Kouider’s former boyfriends, Anthony Francois, told the court she had a “dual personality” and would attack other woman in the street at random.

“She could be as loveable as she could be detestable, with no explanation for the changing of her moods,” he said.

Kouider and Medouni, both from Wimbledon, admitted perverting the course of justice and denied murder.

They were both found guilty of the murder charge after a trial.

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Attilashrugs
Attilashrugs
5 years ago

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Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
5 years ago

Sure hope these two get knifed in the ass in prison!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

How monstrous and inhumane — but very typical of these people. The Europeans and their societies are dying, and still they refuse to do almost anything.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

They are slowly, tentatively waking up, but, distressingly, it may be too late to save Europe. What fools!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Bwahahahahahahahaha, how would you save Europe? Muslum outreach programs? Free prayer rugs for the kafir al najjis? Outlaw all criticism of islum, muslums or their holey prophet for profit?

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
5 years ago

The five pillars of islam
KILL..KILL..KILL..KILL..KILL.
Oh, wait this had nothing to do with islam.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

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Toni Parker
Toni Parker
5 years ago

I don’t understand why the parents who begged Kouider and Medouni to release their daughter 8 days before the murder didn’t go to the police and request they step in… Islam is a disease in itself, but why the parents didn’t go to the police bothers me. I’m sure it will haunt them. France sounds like it has become victim of the new Dark Ages.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Poor Ms. Lionnet, RIP, I hope you didn’t die an atheist.

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
5 years ago

Good point, muslims are often psychos, due to genetic defects from 1400 years of inbreeding.

James Rooster Pace Jr.
James Rooster Pace Jr.
5 years ago

French prisons? Not like the old ones for sure. They’ll get better treatment than in American ones and ours are like mini-country clubs. They should bring back the guillotine or Devils Island.

Dustwitch
Dustwitch
5 years ago

Is THAT it…30 years? That is disgusting.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

This doesn’t make sense. Why didn’t the girl leave? Call for help? Nothing is said about this. But strangely, when you give someone a prison sentence, it’s actually torture too.

A death sentence actually prevents their suffering. But liebs did away with the death penalty for that VERY reason. They love human misery, suffering and mental torture.

The only time they want a death penalty is if your in the womb. Can’t create human misery and suffering on an undeveloped human. So in their anger, they RIP IT APART!

dragondog 59
dragondog 59
5 years ago

30 years? Execute them.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

As far as I am concerned, any death the result of and because of torture should not result in the perpetrators being given a lifetime of food, clothing and shelter at taxpayer expense. They should be treated to death in any manner prescribed as acceptable to the victims or their family of the crime.

AZ gal
AZ gal
5 years ago

What was a beautiful young Frenchwoman doing living & being employed by Koranderthals like a slave?

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago

Notice the prayer bump on the Male muzrats forehead. Been praying hard to someone that doesn’t exist. The sad sap!

Hal Lemoyne
Hal Lemoyne
5 years ago

Why in the hell do I always have to forced to have my US Tax monies

pay for criminals such as these damned muslims sitting a prison

until they naturally die

I want these coffined and dumped in the middle of an ocean

or cremated immediately

I’m very tried of criminals as these muslims are sucking up my taxes in order

to live years with a living human future of any kind!!!

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