Seventh arrest in student murders

Updated 20.47 Wed Aug 06 2008
Keywords: murder, Gabriel Ferez, Laurent Bonomo, New Cross

Detectives investigating the murder of two French students have arrested a seventh person.

A 19-year-old man from Ramsgate, Kent, is being held on suspicion of murder, Scotland Yard said.

Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were stabbed hundreds of times in a frenzied and prolonged attack at a rented bedsit in New Cross, southeast London

Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were stabbed hundreds of times at a rented bedsit in New Cross, southeast London.

Their badly burned bodies were found after an explosion at the building on June 29.

A Yard spokesman said the latest suspect was arrested at an address in Margate by Kent officers on behalf of the Metropolitan police.

Daniel Sonnex, 23, of Peckham, and Nigel Farmer, 33, of no fixed address, have both been charged with murder and perverting the course of justice.

Mr Bonomo and Mr Ferez were in the second year of Masters degrees at the Clermont-Ferrand Polytech in the Auvergne region of central France.

Both were nearing the end of a three-month research placement studying DNA at Imperial College London when they were murdered.

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