A woman and a man have been charged with murder after a badly burned body was found in a garden.
Sabrina Quider and Ouissem Medouni were arrested on following the discovery on Wednesday as detectives investigated the disappearance of an au pair who had been staying at the home.
Sabrina had reportedly hired Sophie Linnet (pictured above) to look after her kids, including a son she shared with one of the founders of Boyzone, Mark Walton.
But, according to the Daily Mail, cops discovered a badly burned body in Quider’s garden this week, after an eight-year-old boy raised the alarm.
Parents had reported a “foul-smelling smoke” coming from the home as they walked their kids home from school on Wednesday afternoon.
Sabrina Quider (photo via Facebook)
The young boy alerted the police after he scaled the gate in the back yard and saw a huge bonfire, with a man throwing what he thought were sticks onto the flames.
Police rushed to the home around 6.30pm on Wednesday evening, where they found a burned body.
It has since been reported locally that the body may be that of Ms Lionnet, who has reportedly not been seen since “late August”.
One of the neighbours, Sunny Patel, runs a news agents opposite the couple’s home.
He told The Daily Telegraph that the young au pair used to regularly come in with the kids to buy them sweets “twice a day” – but he hadn’t seen her for awhile.
He said:
“I have not seen the nanny since late August. She used to come in with the kids twice a day to buy them sweets.
“She looked about 13 but was actually in her early 20s. A very polite, pleasant girl.”
Sophie Lionnet, originally from Troyes in France, had been looking after Sabrina’s kids – including a six-year-old son with Irish music mogul Mark Walton – for 14 months.
Sophie Lionnet (photo via Facebook)
A friend of hers told the Mail that the 21-year-old nanny had originally moved to the UK to learn English, but had since struggled – and had recently decided to return home.
They added:
“She came here to learn English, but found it very difficult here.
“Sabrina liked her social life and liked going out with her friends. There always seemed to be plenty of money.
“She has had Sophie, who is from a poor French family, living in her little home for 14 months.
“Sophie had been unhappy for a long time – so unhappy she left to stay with one of her few friends for two nights last month.
“She had finally decided to go home though, and had just asked her mum to send her £40 so she could afford the fare.
“She was supposed to have gone back on Monday. She never arrived.”
Ms Quider lived at the flat with her three year old daughter, and a son, six.
The friend of Ms Lionnet’s added:
“The father of [Quider’s] son left some time ago and she has a new boyfriend, who is also French Algerian. It was him who introduced Sabrina to Sophie.”
Dubliner Mark Walton and Ms Quider separated a while ago. The musician is now splits his time between Los Angeles and Vietnam, where he is a judge on the Vietnamese version of Pop Idol.
— mark walton (@markwalton8) July 17, 2015
Walton was picked from 50 candidates to be part of Boyzone, after becoming a part of the new Irish boyband was advertised in several newspapers.
He was joined Stephen Gately, Richard Rock, Keith Duffy, Ronan Keating and Shane Lynch for the initial formation of the band, but only five of them ended up being in the final line-up.
He is also an International A&R Consultant who has worked with several big names in the entertainment industry, like Jennifer Lopez, Shaggy, and Enrique Iglesias.
Golden Globe Awards was so much fun! pic.twitter.com/bKLjax0LLz
— mark walton (@markwalton8) January 12, 2017
He told the Irish Sun last year:
“I got approached by the biggest songwriter in the world, Wayne Hector, who writes for Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, One Direction and Westlife, among many others.
“I ended up becoming the CEO of his record label, which I ran for ten years. Louis came to our company many times without even knowing I was there . . . But any time I met him since he’d say, ‘You’re that fella that used to be in Boyzone’.”
