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| The niece of UK junior defence minister Quentin Davies has been jailed for 15 years after being convicted of murdering a man at her flat in Paris. | The niece of UK junior defence minister Quentin Davies has been jailed for 15 years after being convicted of murdering a man at her flat in Paris. |
| Jessica Davies, 30, admitted stabbing Olivier Mugnier after a drunken binge but said she had a blackout. | Jessica Davies, 30, admitted stabbing Olivier Mugnier after a drunken binge but said she had a blackout. |
| The 24-year-old died after being struck twice in the chest in November 2007. | |
| The court heard that the knife used was the same one Davies, 30, slashed her own wrists and legs with just a few months earlier following a break-up. | The court heard that the knife used was the same one Davies, 30, slashed her own wrists and legs with just a few months earlier following a break-up. |
| Davies, who has French and British nationality, was said to be four times over the drink-drive limit and could barely stand or speak when arrested at her home in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. | Davies, who has French and British nationality, was said to be four times over the drink-drive limit and could barely stand or speak when arrested at her home in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. |
| Davies, who said she only remembered coming round to find Mr Mugnier bleeding to death on her bed, was also sentenced to 10 years of probation and psychological monitoring. | Davies, who said she only remembered coming round to find Mr Mugnier bleeding to death on her bed, was also sentenced to 10 years of probation and psychological monitoring. |
| The court in Versailles was told she had suffered from psychological problems and drifted into drug taking after her English businessman father and French mother divorced when she was 14. | |
| 'I am a monster' | |
| The trial was told how Davies met her student victim in an Irish pub and then went with him to her flat. | |
| Later that night she called police, who found her trying to stem the flow of blood from his body. | |
| I don't remember killing Olivier, but I take responsibility for killing him Jessica Davies | |
| She told officers: "I did it. I can't tell you why, but I did it... I am a monster. | |
| But Davies told the court she had no recollection of the killing except "the sensation of the knife going in". | |
| She said: "I am horrified by what I have done. | |
| "I remember telling the police [who arrived at the murder scene] that I was a monster. | |
| "I don't remember killing Olivier, but I take responsibility for killing him." | |
| Davies' uncle has served in Parliament for more than 20 years. Originally elected as a Conservative MP, he defected to Labour in 2007. |