That's it from court in Paris today. Thank you for reading.

Tomorrow, Monique Olivier will be questioned about what the French call "the facts" - or in other words, the case against her.

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The jury is now being shown the scene of where Joanna was found on 17 May 1990.

Her body was put into the river between 06:00 and 07:00am.

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Dr Jean-Pierre Lauzier, a medical-legal expert, is giving evidence now.

He confirms that she had been and given medicine which put her to sleep and that her body had been found with injection marks.

He also confirms that Ms Parrish was strangled.

The court has had a break for lunch but is back now.

We expect to hear this afternoon from medical, legal and judicial, or police, experts.

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Pauline Harris says there was "no helpful response" from the French authorities in the early years after the murder.

Ms Parrish's body was found on 17 May 1990 - the same day of her grandmother's birthday.

Ms Harris said it felt as if her heart was "broken into a million pieces".

"Joanna would never have gone with a male stranger. But a man with her wife and a baby... they were able to trick her with their lies! Why were charges not brought sooner?"

We know that Fourniret and Olivier used their son in kidnappings, but it was unclear whether he was there when Joanna Parrish was kidnapped.

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This is another long session in court, nearly three hours without a break.

The panel of judges and jury listening intently. Monique Olivier still focussing all of the time on whoever is speaking.

Her lawyer isn't in court today, as we've mentioned, so she won't be questioned about what's been said today until tomorrow.

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Roger Parrish's sister is now reading a statement from Pauline Harris, a 77-year-old retired teacher.

"I'd like to tell you some words her friends at university said. In 2015, they invited Pauline and Roger to plant a tree in Joanna's memory. Lovely words were spoken.

"When my parents dropped me off at university, Jo was the first person I met to talk to. She struck me as a real life force, with an unforgettable smile."

"What I remember most is her radiant smile and bright and sunny disposition which would light up a room."

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A statement from Joanna's friend, Janet Davis, is being read out in court, explaining that she saw Ms Parrish on 16 May 1990, when she told her she had an appointment to go and give an English lesson.

The next day, she was missing and the police were informed.

In her statement, Ms Davis said the appointment in the centre of town was for 19:00 to 19:15, and she'd have to get into the man's car to go to the lesson with his son.

This is an important point and will show how Joanna was coerced into the van, with Olivier being there too.

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The president asks Mr Proctor to confirm Ms Parrish didn't have much money, and didn't want to ask her parents for more.

Mr Proctor confirms that Ms Parrish didn't have much money and didn't want to ask her parents for more. He said that she was planning to give English lessons, but he doesn't know all the details.

He describes her as "someone very intelligent, very funny and very kind".

"She had a good sense of humour. And I loved her".

Mr Seban asked: "They found traces of medication and alcohol, and injections, on Joanna's body. Would she have drunk in the day? Was she taking anything?

Mr Proctor replied: "No, I don't think she was ill or took medicine through injections."

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Joanna Parrish's fiance at the time, Patrick Proctor, takes to the stand to deliver evidence. He is speaking calm and slowly in flawless French. It is clear he has been affected by the death of Ms Parrish for the last 30 years.

The couple met at Leeds University in 1987. Ms Parrish was his first love - and the love of his life.

When Ms Parrish was teaching in France, Mr Proctor was teaching in Czechoslovakia. He had visited her in France twice.

"It was agreed that she would come to see me in Czechoslovakia in June. But.... that never happened," he said.

"It really affected me. I paused my studies for two years...

"Thirty years later she is always in my thoughts. At that time, it seemed that the suffering was the worst ever. Now I have kids of my own I understand, [like Roger said], to lose a child, there is nothing worse."

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Didier Seban asks Mr Parrish how it feels that it has taken more than 30 years for someone to go on trial for Joanna's murder.

"It's an enormously long time. Things that happened 30 years ago sometimes seem like 30 years ago, but we still see Joanna as if it were yesterday," he says.

Mr Parrish told Seban that Joanna would not have entered a car or a van with a man on his own.

The camera in court pans back onto Monique Olivier. She remains impassive and expressionless.

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Mr Parrish tells the court about how Joanna Parrish was selling some of her belongings that she no longer needed just a couple of weeks before her placement was coming to an end and she'd placed this advert in the local paper offering English lessons.

He says Janet Davis, a friend of Ms Parrish, came to England after Joanna had died and that she'd been present when Joanna had received a telephone call replying to the advert.

Mr Parrish becomes emotional and there is absolute silence in court and the press room, as Mr Parrish explains how Ms Davis told them she was there when Joanna got a reply.

Ms Parrish had made an arrangement to meet a person at a location in the centre of Auxerre. But it was never confirmed who this telephone call was from.

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Roger Parrish says he regrets that Michel Fourniret, who died in prison in 2021, is not in court today.

"His trial for Joanna’s murder had been postponed on a number of occasions and it didn’t come as a suprise to hear that he’d died. Nevertheless I do regret him not being here today."

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Didier Seban, the Parrish family lawyer, is going right back to 2004 and the history between him and his client, and their interactions with the French judicial system.

At one point Roger Parrish had asked him: "Why has Michel Fourniret not been put on trial?"

He had been told Fourniret needed to be extradited - which was why Joanna Parish's case wasn't heard when Fourniret and Olivier were put on trial in 2008.

Roger Parrish says that wasn't the reason he thought Fourniret was not on trial back in 2008

"We were aware that there were certain scientific evidence, [such as] DNA. So we thought that could be used to positively identify Fourniret or eliminate him."

Joanna's parents were helped by British journalist Graham Tearse, who was living in France at the time.

"The first we heard about Fourniret and Olivier was through Graham Tearse," said Mr Parrish.

"He said that an individual had been arrested in Eastern France who had previously lived near Auxerre when Joanna was teaching there."

Roger Parrish told the president of the court that he last saw his daughter a couple of weeks before she died, when they came to visit her in France.

The president asked Mr Parrish what he thought of the investigation.

Mr Parrish told the president that they were not familiar with the French judicial system and that, after two years, they had heard "very little".

In 1994, Ms Parrish' parents visited Auxerre to try and find out what happened to their daughter.

Their visit attracted the attention of the media - and they continued to return to keep the story "alive."

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Everyone in the court is taking this in quietly, respectfully.

Think about this moment - the Father of Joanna talking through her life with a series of family photos - in a courtroom just a few feet from the woman accused of helping the person who murdered her.

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As an integral part of her University degree course, Joanna, was required to spend time in France at a Lycee school teaching students.

She started this in September 1989 in Auxerre.

Mr Parrish said the world was robbed of an "exceptional" woman, who was kind, conscientious and helpful.

"Her life was cruelly ended by a narcissistic psychopath and her female partner who was an active participant in all of his crimes."

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Joanna Parrish attended Ribston Hall High School in Gloucester, where she excelled in French.

Mr Parrish says she was popular and was elected deputy head girl.

She was then accepted to Leeds University.

"She was thrilled but her excitement paled in comparison to the pride that we felt in her," he says.

"Joanna’s love for France, its people and culture grew whilst at University.

"Many (of her friends) deeply affected by her death still get in touch with us 33 years later."

Happiness and a very quiet confidence radiated from her wherever she went, says Mr Parrish.

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Roger Parrish is close to tears giving some of his testimony. Meanwhile, Olivier is watching on just metres away, impassive.

"Never ending devastation doesn’t come even close to describing the effect Joanna’s murder had on our family," says Mr Parrish.

That trauma has remained with us to this day," he continues, referring to the impact it had on the whole family.

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