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The crime came to light in June 2012 after joggers found a leg, cut off at the ankle, while running through the Vincennes forest on the edge of Paris. Several days later, a guide dog found a human torso in the same area, but the hunt for further remains was fruitless.
French policemen investigates with a police dog at the Vincennes forest in June 2012.
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While the French police knew the victims were Asian, they were yet to determine their identities. But before the bodies could even be identified, a Chinese couple – Hui Zhang and her boyfriend Te Lu, both 34 years old – approached police and admitted to the crime.
French policemen investigate Vincennes forest, where parts of the victims' bodies were found.
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After killing and disposing the bodies, the couple then fled to China, but returned back fearing the death penalty in their home country
Now, a Paris court on Friday, 22 January 2016, have handed a 20-year jail term to the 34-year-old nanny. In his closing arguments, Judge Julien Eyraud had told the court: "When I learned of this case I was overcome by the horror of what happened, imagining the smell of blood, this butchery in the bathroom, this violence."
This file court sketch made on 19 January 2016 shows a Chinese couple, a nanny and her partner identified as Hui Zhang and her boyfriend Te Lu, both 34, accused of killing and dismembering the parents of a baby that had died in the babysitter's care, during their trial in Paris.
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