https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/25/a-london-couples-shared-psychosis-led-to-the-torture-and-death-of-french-au-pair/?utm_term=.d81c775bb44b

Neighbors spotted the black smoke lifting from behind the house on Wimbledon Park Road in the Southfields neighborhood of southwest London. The smell was so alarmingly pungent and foul firefighters were called to the scene. When the crew pushed into the garden of the $1.2 million residence, a bonfire was belching flames. Once the blaze was doused, firefighter Thomas Hunt’s eyes zeroed in on the ashes: clothing, jewelry, and a human nose and fingers appeared to be in the smoking pile.

“Why are you burning a body?” the disturbed firefighter asked the homeowner, Ouissem Medouni, Hunt would later testify.

“It’s a sheep,” Medouni, a French Algerian financial analyst, replied.

“Bollocks,” the firefighter answered. Later, Hunt would tell a court Medouni then insisted the remains were from an animal, but that a look of “resignation” crossed his face, as if “the game’s up.”

Police arrived at the London house that day — Sept. 20, 2017 — to recover what would be later identified as the charred body of Sophie Lionnet, the 21-year-old French au pair hired to care for Medouni’s two young children.