Before the trial, Medouni claimed Miss Lionnet died by accident after he punched her during an interrogation in the bath. In his evidence, Medouni claimed his wife had woken him up in a state saying "what have I done, what have I done". A witness in the house, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, placed both defendants in the bathroom with Miss Lionnet on the night of her death. He described hearing Miss Lionnet screaming and splashing in the bath as they said to "breathe". He said their "unhealthy, myopic, all-consuming and groundless" obsession with Mr Walton had deprived them of reason and turned their nanny into "something less than human".

Source: Daily Mirror May 24, 2018 23:37 UTC