Man bailed over student killings

The bodies of the two students were found at a bedsit in New Cross

The seventh person arrested over killings of two French students in a bedsit in south-east London has been released on bail.

The bodies of Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both 23, were found stabbed and burnt in New Cross on 29 June.

A 19-year-old man from Margate, Kent, was arrested on Monday, but has now been released until November.

Two men have been charged with the murders of Mr Ferez and Mr Bonomo, who had suffered hundreds of stab wounds.

Both victims were nearing the end of a three-month research placement studying DNA at Imperial College London when they were killed.

They were in the second year of Masters degrees at the Clermont-Ferrand Polytech in the Auvergne region of central France.

Daniel Sonnex, 23, from Peckham, south London, and Nigel Farmer, 33, of no fixed address, have been charged with their murders.