Overview
- Renewed coverage published Thursday centers on a note police found at the Wimbledon home that read, “Why me? I need help to stop them.”
- Over 12 days in 2017, the 21-year-old au pair was starved, beaten with an electrical cable that fractured her ribs and sternum, and forced underwater during coercive “interrogations.”
- Neighbors who reported foul-smelling smoke led officers to a patio bonfire where her body was discovered, and Ouissem Medouni tried to claim the remains were a sheep.
- Sabrina Kouider fixated on ex-partner Mark Walton and accused Lionnet of helping him, a story the court called complete fiction, and investigators say she kept hours of recorded abuse for planned blackmail.
- Warning signs went unheeded as a local restaurateur recalled Lionnet saying she had been beaten, her letters home said she wanted to leave, and her passport and return ticket were later found missing.