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French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were tied up and stabbed a total of 244 times during a break-in at Mr Bonomo's bedsit in Sterling Gardens, New Cross, on June 29 last year. Two men have been found guilty of murdering the students.
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NEW CROSS: Sentences of French student murderers could be appealed

Dano Sonnex was free to murder two men after failures by probation and police officers

10:05am Friday 12th June 2009

JAIL sentences given to two men who tortured and stabbed to death two French students are to be examined by the Attorney General to see if they were too lenient.

NEW CROSS: Hush-hush probation policy slammed after French student murders

Jack Straw has been accused by former London probation chief after the murder of two French students in New Cross

10:00am Wednesday 10th June 2009

THE probation chief who resigned over the murder of two French students by a violent convicted criminal has hit out at Justice Secretary Jack Straw.

NEW CROSS: Killer Sonnex 'should have been locked up' before student murders

Dano Sonnex was free to murder two men after failures by probation and police officers

5:10pm Monday 8th June 2009

A MURDERER “could and should” have been in custody at the time he killed two French students, the House of Commons was told today (June 8).

VIDEO - French student murders: Parents speak after killers' trial

The parents of the two French students who were murdered last year

4:33pm Friday 5th June 2009

PARENTS of two French students murdered last year in a sadistic attack have spoken of the “animals” who killed their sons.

VIDEO - NEW CROSS: Pair get life terms for murdering French students

Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo

3:30pm Thursday 4th June 2009

A PAIR of drug-crazed thugs have been found guilty of murdering two French students.

VIDEO - NEW CROSS: Jack Straw sorry for mistakes that let killer Sonnex free

Dano Sonnex has been found guilty of murdering two French students in New Cross when he should have been in custody

11:33am Thursday 4th June 2009

JUSTICE Secretary Jack Straw has apologised to the families of two French students murdered by a pair of sadistic thugs, as one of the killers should have been in custody.

VIDEO - NEW CROSS: Parents of murdered French students plan legal action

7:19pm Thursday 4th June 2009

THE families of two French students murdered in New Cross last year are planning legal action against the British authorities.

French students murders: Parents speak of suffering after sons' barbaric deaths

Laurent Bonomo’s father Guy Bonomo (left) and Gabriel Ferez's parents Olivier Ferez and Francoise Villemont have been attending court

4:14pm Thursday 4th June 2009

THE parents of murdered French students Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo have described their grief.

French students murders: Killer Sonnex has history of violence

Dano Sonnex has been found guilty of murdering two French students in New Cross when he should have been in custody

11:43am Thursday 4th June 2009

DANO Sonnex murdered two French students in New Cross just months after spending five years behind bars for a string of other violent crimes.

French students murders: Drink, drug and mental health problems of killer Farmer

Nigel Farmer has admitted starting the fire at the French students' flat in New Cross

11:52am Thursday 4th June 2009

NIGEL Farmer, convicted of murdering two French students in New Cross, lost his “moral compass” after breaking up with his partner and mother of his twin sons.

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