#310 - Tortured for Digits (Gabriel Ferez & Laurent Bonomo, New Cross, SE15)

Murder Mile UK True Crime

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 2008, two brilliant French scholars - Gabriel Ferez & Laurent Bonomo – were studying at this facility on a three-month placement as part of their degree in biochemistry. As students who excelled, here they met likeminded scientists on their journey to become the best they could be, but with this city being so expensive, they also came across two of the worst examples of London’s scum.

Location: ground floor, 12 Sterling Gardens, Admiral Court, New Cross, SE14
Date: Monday 30th June 2008 between 5am and 10am
Victims: Gabriel Ferez & Laurent Bonomo
Culprits: Daniel Sonnex & Nigel Edward Farmer

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0:24.6	The town of Agda in France has taken a strange turn. The town's mayor has been arrested for corruption.
0:31.9	The mayor is unable to carry out his duties. Then there's a mysterious phone calls.
0:36.7	I need you to do something for me.
0:39.1	Now the whole town has been thrown into chaos.
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0:57.5	Two students, tortured because they're killer, couldn't recall four digits.
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1:17.6	Today I'm standing outside for the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London, SW7. Two streets east of the shattered memory of Gunther Badola,
1:21.6	three streets south of the stolen womanhood of Olvada Cougan,
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