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Jan 13, 2010
British minister's niece jailed
VERSAILLES (France) - A BRITISH government minister's niece was convicted of murder on Tuesday and sentenced to 15 years in jail for drunkenly stabbing a Frenchman she picked up in a bar. The court convicted Jessica Davies, 30, of killing 24-year-old Olivier Mugnier in November 2007 in her apartment in the chic Paris suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The niece of the multi-millionaire junior defence minister Quentin Davies admitted killing her victim but said she had a blackout and only remembered coming round to find him bleeding to death on her bed. She was sentenced to 15 years' jail and 10 years of probation and psychological monitoring. The judge and jury in the Versailles court heard Davies had suffered from psychological problems since her English father and French mother divorced acrimoniously when she was 14. She took to drink and drugs and casual sex, scraped through school and university and failed to hold down any job for long, the court heard. She also made several suicide attempts, once using the same knife she killed Mr Mugnier with to slash her wrists and thighs. -- AFP
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Jan 13, 2010
British minister's niece jailed
VERSAILLES (France) - A BRITISH government minister's niece was convicted of murder on Tuesday and sentenced to 15 years in jail for drunkenly stabbing a Frenchman she picked up in a bar. The court convicted Jessica Davies, 30, of killing 24-year-old Olivier Mugnier in November 2007 in her apartment in the chic Paris suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The niece of the multi-millionaire junior defence minister Quentin Davies admitted killing her victim but said she had a blackout and only remembered coming round to find him bleeding to death on her bed. She was sentenced to 15 years' jail and 10 years of probation and psychological monitoring. The judge and jury in the Versailles court heard Davies had suffered from psychological problems since her English father and French mother divorced acrimoniously when she was 14. She took to drink and drugs and casual sex, scraped through school and university and failed to hold down any job for long, the court heard. She also made several suicide attempts, once using the same knife she killed Mr Mugnier with to slash her wrists and thighs. -- AFP
