Leslie and Kevin case: DNA analyzes confirm that the two bodies found are indeed those of the couple


Leslie Hoorelbeke and Kevin Trompat – /AFP

The public prosecutor of Poitiers announces this Thursday that the exploitation of the DNA taken from the two exhumed bodies is indeed that of Leslie and Kevin, who disappeared in November.

There was almost no doubt. The final analysis of the DNA taken from the two bodies exhumed in Deux-Sèvres last week confirms that the two bodies found are indeed those of Leslie Hoorelbeke and Kevin Trompat, confirms this Thursday the public prosecutor of Poitiers, Cyril Lacombe.

Last Saturday, a male body had “was exhumed in a field along a roadin Puyravault, Charente-Maritime. The day before, that of a “female person was exhumed in a wooded areain a neighboring town, Virson, then specified the prosecutor.

Blows with a blunt object

This double discovery dashed hopes of finding alive Leslie Hoorelbeke, 22, and Kevin Trompat, 21, who have not given any sign of life since the night of November 25 to 26 in Prahecq, a town near Niort. A dog belonging to the young woman also vanished.

On Tuesday, the magistrate also said that their death had been caused by “blows with a blunt object“, specifying that the body of Leslie, house painter, did not bear a trace”sexual assaults.“Like that of his companion, the body of Kevin Trompat, 21 and unemployed, was found”dressed.»

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At the same time, three people are currently indicted. Tom T., Heads of “kidnapping and forcible confinement not followed by voluntary releaseand Nathan Badji, 22, and Enzo C. for “assassinations, modification of the inventory of a crime to obstruct the manifestation of the truth and kidnapping and sequestration without voluntary release before the 7th day.»

These crimes carry heavy penalties, up to life imprisonment. But the “heads of indictment may change depending on the elements that will be brought to light during the course of the investigation“, warns the public prosecutor.



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