It’s monstrous what we did, ex-wife of French serial killer tells court

Monique Olivier describes how Michel Fourniret killed British student Joanna Parrish in Auxerre in 1990

The ex-wife of the French serial killer Michel Fourniret has described how he flew into a fury and beat a British student, Joanna Parrish, after discovering she had a boyfriend.

Monique Olivier, 75, said Fourniret then raped and strangled the 20-year-old and dumped her body in a river. She admitted that her role in helping him lure Parrish to her death was “monstrous … unforgivable”.