Jessica Davis 30, the niece of Britain’s junior defense minister told police she was a “monster” after stabbing a young 24 year old Frenchman she picked up in a bar. Said Davis at her two day trial in Versailles, “I just wanted to cut him a little but the knife went in by itself.”
When police arrived at the scene which occurred on Nov 11, 2007, they found Jessica kneeling nude at the bed in her posh French apartment trying to stop blood overflowing from the body of Olivier Mugnier. Davis immediately told police, “I did it. I can’t tell you why, but I did it… I am a monster.” Olivier had been stabbed twice in the upper chest with the knife going though the front and touched the spinal cord in the back.
At the time of her arrest, Jessica had very high levels of alcohol and also had traces of an anti depressant in her blood. She was barely coherent or able to stand at the time.
It is widely believed that Jessica became despondent after breaking up with her boyfriend and then resorted to picking up men in bars. Some forensic experts suspect that perhaps that this was an accidental death resulting from a sex game being played with a knife.
The trial has revealed a sad history of a dysfunctional family and a lonely child. The bitter divorce of her parents promoted Jessica to drink heavily and use cocaine as a teenager. She says that she had a troubled youth and did not have a steady job. The trial has revealed some complex psychological problems in the family where her wealthy father and schizophrenic brother once tried to kill their mother.
Davis has lived most of her life in France and faces a maximum sentence of 30 years if convicted