Three months after the disappearance of the couple in Deux-Sèvres, a man was arrested in Vendée, this Tuesday, February 28. It would be a relative of the couple…
By Jeanne Le Borgne for Le Point
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I’investigation into the disappearance of Leslie and Kévin, this couple who disappeared in Deux-Sèvres last November, experienced a first start, this Tuesday, February 28. The Poitiers prosecutor’s office announced the arrest, then the placement in police custody, of a friend of the two young people, stressing that it was a man in his twenties. The investigators would have noted inconsistencies between the statements of this person, who had already been heard as a witness, and the record of his telephone communications.
The public prosecutor of Poitiers, Cyril Lacombe, explains that it is Tom, the 22-year-old man who had lent his house, located in the town of Prahecq, to the couple, the evening of their disappearance. According to information from Parisian, the investigators are interested in the young man for two reasons. First of all, because they suspect him of selling drugs. But above all, because he could have been in love with Leslie and wanted revenge for his budding relationship with Kevin – the two young people had met through Tom three weeks before their disappearance.
“His little sister at heart”
Another disturbing element could have pushed the investigators to take an interest in Tom: the evening of Leslie’s disappearance, he was the last to have exchanged with her by SMS. Text messages deemed “disturbing” by the parents of the young woman.
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Shortly after Leslie and Kevin’s disappearance, Tom’s mother spoke in The Western Mail to proclaim the innocence of his son, who has become an outcast in their village and on social networks. “My son is innocent. He was not in Prahecq during the weekend of the disappearance, ”she had claimed, assuring that he had spent the weekend at the festival. She had also indicated that Tom considered Leslie “like his little sister at heart” and that, his house being placed under seal, he had gone to take refuge with his father, in Vendée.
Since their disappearance, Tom has been very involved in the search for Leslie and Kevin. The young man participated in the search to try to find the couple and regularly shares their notice of disappearance on social networks.
always according to The Parisianother people would currently be heard by the gendarmerie, in particular the person with whom the couple was before we lost track of them.