A STRANGE MURDER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 12 September 1930, Page 6

A STRANGE MURDER

ALL OVER A PARROT. PARIS, July 20. The Assize Court at Rouen has just condemned Jean Francis Bonnet, of Havre, to penal servitude for life for having murdered his sister-in-law, the wife of one of the best-known doctors in Havre. According to the story told before the court, Bonnett had taken a strong dislike to his sister-in-law, with whom his mother lived, and had more than once threatened her. On the day of the crime he was paying his daily visit to the house —for he saw his mother every day—when he noticed that his sister-in-law’s parrot had been released from its cage and was walking about the room. He protested to his sister-in-law, saying that the bird ought to be kept confined, as otherwise it might inflict some injury on his mother. In the discussion which followed Bonnet lost his temper raid struck his brother's wife to the ground, afterwards trampling upon her face and body so savagely that when she succumbed her face was unrecognisable. After this savage murder Bonnet is alleged to have said “I have killed my sister-in-law cm account of the parrot. Perhaps it would have been better if I had simply killed the parrot.”