British minister’s niece on trial for murder
.The niece of a British government minister went on trial Monday in Versailles, accused of murdering a young Frenchman by slitting his throat after she picked him up in a bar.
Jessica Davies contacted police in the early hours of a Sunday in November 2007 to say she had stabbed the 24-year-old man at her apartment in the chic Saint-Germain-en-Laye suburb west of Paris, judicial officials said.
Davies, who is being held in Versailles women’s prison, claimed to remember nothing of the stabbing, only that she had met Olivier Mugnier in an Irish pub close to her flat a few hours before his death.
Police found the now 30-year-old niece of Britain’s multi-millionaire junior defence minister Quentin Davies so drunk that she could not be brought before a judge until the evening, sources said at the time. .
The trial by jury is expected to last two days, with a verdict likely on Tuesday.
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