An alleged killer talked of eating her celebrity former boyfriend “raw” as she interrogated her French au pair for hours, a court has heard.



Sabrina Kouider, 35, was obsessed that Sophie Lionnet was in league with Mark Walton, who founded the band Boyzone, jurors at the Old Bailey in London have heard.

Kouider and Ouissem Medouni, 40, are accused of torturing Lionett into making a “confession” before killing her and burning the body in the garden of their home in Wimbledon.

Jurors have been played hours of recorded interrogations the defendants made in the days before Lionnet’s death in September.

In them, Kouider shouted at the 21-year-old au pair and repeatedly demanded to know the location of the house where she claimed Walton had taken her.

Lionnet was threatened with 40 years in jail, with Kouider ranting: “You should be in custody. I’m trying to help you after all and I want you to help me, too.

“I help you, you must help me stop a fucking paedophile so you tell me where is the house right now. Where is the house. Look at me, Sophie. You have done enough damage already.”

Kouider accused Lionnet of taking her for “a fool”, saying: “If you had told me I would have protected you and would have eaten him raw in front of you.”

In one recording made just before midnight on 11 September, Medouni likened Lionnet to a French person who gave up Jews to the Nazis.

Kouider went on to say Lionnet had a dream Walton would make her a star, as she questioned her about an alleged indecent assault in a public toilet.

She told her: “He did it to you and you enjoyed it.”

Lionnet whispered that he had given her a “massage”, but Kouider carried on: “Like what he did to me, hun. You should start screaming ... You could have said ‘leave me alone’.”

The defendant continued to rant about how Walton had promised to make Lionnet a star.

She said: “He sold you a dream and you believed it.”

Lionnet rarely spoke and her replies to the couple’s relentless questioning were barely audible.

Jurors have heard that none of the allegations against Walton are true.

Kouider and Medouni have admitted perverting the course of justice but deny murder.

The trial continues.