The foul smell coming from a wealthy couple’s home led right to a nanny’s burned corpse

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A wealthy French couple is accused of killing their nanny and burning her body in their garden.

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Sabrina Kouider, 34, and her boyfriend Ouissem Medouni, 40, are accused of killing their 21-year-old French nanny, Sophie Lionnet. A passerby noticed a foul smell and smoke coming from the couple’s apartment and called the police. Upon investigation, authorities discovered a charred corpse in the garden. Though the body was badly burned, local residents identified the victim as Lionnet, the Daily Mail reports.

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An 8-year-old boy made the gruesome discovery when he climbed a wall outside the couples $1.2 million London mansion and noticed a huge bonfire. Lionnet’s friends say that the nanny, who lived in the house, was paid only $60 a month. She was reportedly very unhappy and apparently planned to go home, even buying a plane ticket, but never arrived.

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Kouider is the former girlfriend of Irish pop star Mark Walton, who was in the boy band Boyzone. Lionnet lived with the couple for just over a year and cared for two children in the house, ages 3 and 6. Police believe that the murder occurred sometime around Sept. 20 and have not released any possible motive for the crime.

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