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"The man known as the "Ogre of the Ardennes", who is suspected of killing the British student Joanna Parrish, goes on trial today for the kidnap, rape and murder of seven young women. In a recent letter to police, Michel Fourniret asked a judge to put him on trial for the murder of Joanna Parrish Michel Fourniret, 65, formed a sordid pact with his estranged wife, Monique Olivier, 59, under which she agreed to find virgins for his sexual gratification, the court in Charleville-Mezieres will be told. In one of France's most shocking murder cases, the bespectacled former electrician is charged with killing seven young women and girls between 1987 and 2003 on either side of the Franco-Belgian border. In a separate investigation he is also accused of the murder of 20- year-old Miss Parrish, whose body was found in a river near the town of Auxerre in 1990. Her family, from Gloucestershire, had for years fought for French police to investigate Fourniret. A third-year language undergraduate at the University of Leeds, Miss Parrish is believed to have been contacted by Fourniret after she placed an advertisement in a local newspaper offering English lessons. Her father Roger, 63, had previously claimed to have seen evidence proving his daughter was subjected to the same kind of abuse as other young girls alleged to have been attacked by Fourniret. In a recent letter to police, Fourniret asked a judge to put him on trial for the murders of Miss Parrish and two other girls - Estelle Mouxin, nine, and Marie-Anghle Domece, 19, both from France. He reportedly wrote: "I would like to talk to the parents face to face. The risk of my premature death or losing my mental faculties means I cannot leave these three affairs by the wayside. They should be added." The couple were caught in the Belgian town of Namur in June 2003, after a 13-year-old girl managed to escape from their clutches and identified their van to police. A year later Olivier broke her silence and eventually incriminated her husband in 11 murders. Letters seized by investigators show that the couple met in 1987, when Fourniret - who was serving a jail term in Paris for sexual assault - put an advertisement for a pen pal in a Catholic magazine. Olivier met him when he came out of jail and the pair formed a pact: if he agreed to kill her first husband - which he never did - she would help feed his sexual obsession with virgins. Documents show that he referred to his victims disparagingly as "membranes on legs". After his arrest Fourniret admitted to several murders. Olivier says she was manipulated by her ex-husband into carrying out her role. Fourniret's victims, aged between 12 and 21, were strangled, shot or stabbed with a screwdriver. Fourniret admitted he needed to go hunting for a virgin at least twice a year, prosecutors will say. The court will be told that, typically, Olivier would give a lift to a young girl. Some way down the road she would then be flagged down by Fourniret, waving a petrol can and pretending to have run out of fuel. Fourniret's lawyer said he intends to make a statement to the court at the start of the trial. Olivier is accused of one murder and complicity in four others. Both face life imprisonment if convicted." I think this should give those who claim that the filthy sickening evil of religion should be tolerated as free speech something to think about. These 'Catholic magazines' are nothing but meeting grounds for the most depraved and evil types of perverts! -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Debunking bullshit is a thankless task. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
