Boyzone band member who killed nanny
Boyzone band member who killed nanny
Boyzone band member who killed nanny daughter...
Couple jailed for life for murdering French nanny Sophie Lionnet over bizarre Boyzone obsession
A couple have been sentenced to life for killing their au pair in London over a bizarre obsession with an ex-Boyzone pop star.
Sabrina Kouider, 35, and Ouissem Medouni, 40, were convicted last month of murdering Sophie Lionnet after her burned remains were found in their garden.
The pair appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey on Tuesday and were told they face a minimum term of 30 years in prison.
The shy 21-year-old French nanny was starved and tortured by the couple in the weeks leading up to her death in September last year.
She was beaten and tortured by her employers after being accused of being "in league" with Kouider's ex-partner Mark Walton, a founding member of the Irish boy band Boyzone.
Fashion designer Kouider, who is currently undergoing psychiatric treatment, and former banker Medouni interrogated their nanny for hours to extract some sort of "confession" to