‘Tortured into false confessions and then murdered’
claims against Mark Walton, who was Kouider’s ex-boyfriend and the founder of Boyzone, the Old Bailey heard.
Ms Lionnet, 21, was allegedly murdered after they became fixated that she was in league with Mr Walton.
In French and halting English, Ms Lionnet wrote about supposed meetings with the Pop Idol Vietnam judge in which she claimed he indecently assaulted her. The court has heard that none of the allegations against Mr Walton was true.
Amid the rambling account, she told of missing her friends and family and being ‘scared’ and ‘lost’, the court heard.
Richard Horwell QC, prosecuting, read out the handwritten pages in which she detailed how LA-based Mr Walton promised to use his contacts to get her a job in films.
She wrote that she liked dance, movies and music, and was a fan of actors Tom Cruise and Sylvester Stallone.
According to the notes, Mr Walton asked if she wanted to be ‘famous and have a lot of money’ like her idols but she told him ‘you don’t need a lot of money to be happy’.
She described secret meetings in London in which Mr Walton demanded to know about Kouider’s life. On one alleged meeting, she wrote: ‘I’m really scared this day more than before. My heart. I feel this little spike, I mean like when you go to have a tattoo. I feel like this in my heart.’
She claimed he put his hand on her chest and ‘started to touch my private place’ before she managed to get away.
She wrote: ‘I was afraid, scared, lost. I don’t know what to do. When I was going home, I was like keeping the smile like nothing happen.’
She went on: ‘I just want to go back to my family. I promised them I’m going to come back soon because I miss them and they miss me.’
Kouider, 35, and Medouni, 40, of Wimbledon, south-west London, admit perverting the course of justice but deny murdering Ms Lionnet in September last year.
Last month, jurors in the trial were played tapes of the two defendants allegedly interrogating an emaciated Ms Lionnet before she died.
More than eight and a half hours of Kouider and Medouni interrogating Ms Lionnet was recorded by the couple.
In a tape of one ‘interrogation’ from 5.32pm on August 8, 2017, which was played to the jury, Medouni and Kouider continually ask Ms Lionnet where Walton’s house is.
Medouni says: ‘I don’t care. I want to know where he took you. You have been there several times. You must be really traumatised not to remember. ‘Did you go back to his house?’ ‘Yes,’ says Ms Lionnet, adding that she couldn’t remember where the house was.
Mr Horwell previously told the Old Bailey the couple applied ‘pressure and relentless intimidation’ to get Ms Lionnet to admit Mr Walton had come to the house. He said the defendants interrogated Ms Lionnet for hours about their ‘perverted suspicions’ involving Mr Walton.
He told the court: ‘You will have seen the state of Sophie when she uttered the words that can be heard on that video clip and whatever may be said about that final confession it is anything but voluntary. Sophie had been subjected to violence and a relentless inquisition. Those are her very last words. Within hours, Sophie’s life was taken from her.’
‘I’m really scared, more than before’
‘Relentless and violent inquisition
A FRENCH nanny described in notes she was forced to write before her death of having fears like a ‘little spike’ to the heart, a murder trial has heard.
Sophie Lionnet was later killed and her body thrown on a bonfire, the court in London heard
Before her death, her employers Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni forced and tortured her into confessing to outlandish