Man hands himself in over French student killings

7:58am Monday 7th July 2008

A 33-year-old man is in custody after handing himself into a south London police station this morning over the murders of two French students in New Cross last week.

The Met said he is being quizzed by police over the brutal killings of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, who were bound, gagged and stabbed to death in a bedsit in Sterling Gardens, New Cross on June 29.

Mr Ferez, of South Norwood, and Mr Bonomo, both 23, had been stabbed a total of 243 times.

Mr Ferez had been visiting his friend at his rented New Cross flat at the time of the murder.

Postmortem examinations have revealed the men - both from France and working on a three month research project at Imperial College - were seriously injured before the flames took hold, each with stab wounds to their head, neck and chest.