French students died after torture

The two French students found dead in a south-east London bedsit on Sunday night were horrifically tortured and murdered before the flat was set on fire in a bid to hide the evidence. Laurent Bonomo (right, with his fiance) and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, had been bound and stabbed scores of times in a murder that Scotland Yard detectives are calling one of the most "frenzied, brutal and horrific" they have investigated. The students were on a three-month exchange at Imperial College, London, where they had been working on a DNA research project, and would have returned to their French university at the end of the month.