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UK defense minister's niece arrested: Crime has Knox-like details

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | January 12, 2010 at 09:13 am

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THE niece of a UK defence minister, Jessica Davies, 30, has confessed to the stabbing death of her lover but claims she has no memory of the incident.

24-year-old Oliver Mugnier was stabbed to death in what French police officials are describing as a sex game gone wrong. But Davies claims she blacked out and cannot recall details of the killing.

Davies, who holds dual French and British citizenship, i
s the niece of Quentin Davies, who is United Kingdom's defence minister in charge of procurement.

The killing took place in November 2007, shortly after Meredith Kercher was found stabbed in Perugia , Italy.

Italian Prosecutor Gulliano Mignini claimed Kercher was also stabbed in a sex game gone fatal, and indicted - and later convicted - Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the crime .

French investigators are suggesting Davies was influenced by reports of Kercher's stabbing.

A Paris court was told yesterday that she had a history of depression, violent behaviour and drug and alcohol abuse.
In November 2007, police responded to a call from Davies saying there was an injured man in her home in the affluent Paris suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She had allegedly put a knife to Mr Mugnier's throat to heighten the sexual experience, before slicing through an artery and then stabbing him "six or seven times in anger and frustration".

She then made a slurred phone call asking for an ambulance and waited for police to arrive to arrest her.

When paramedics arrived, they found her crouching naked over Mr Mugnier's body, trying to stem the flow of blood from his neck, police said. Mr Mugnier died in hospital soon afterwards.

Davies had met him at a bar on the night of the killing, and French investigators said his injuries resulted from a sex game that went too far.

Detectives believe Davies could have been influenced by the murder in Italy of Meredith Kercher, 21, the British student stabbed by Amanda Knox and her boyfriend during a sex game.