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New photofit of Caroline suspect

Caroline was raped and smothered in a hostel bedroom in Pleine Fougeres, Brittany, in July 1996, while on a trip with Launceston Community College, Cornwall.

The latest photofit released by French police is of a man with long dark hair covering his ears, a flat nose and bushy eyebrows.

It was prepared by a French teenage girl who was raped at knifepoint in Nancy, eastern France in May 1993.

The man she described was of similar appearance to the first photofit of a suspect released by French police in February this year, prepared from sightings near the hostel in the days before the murder.

The first photofit attracted over 1,000 calls to the French police.

A police spokesman in Nancy appealed for anyone who recognised the second photofit to get in touch with them.

Genetic tests were carried out on 2,000 men in France and Britain in an unsuccessful search for genetic samples matching those found on Caroline's body.

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