PARENTS of two French students murdered last year in a sadistic attack have spoken of the “animals” who killed their sons.

Yesterday Dano Sonnex, 23, of Etta Street, Deptford, and Nigel Farmer, aged 34, of no fixed address, were found guilty of killing the two men in New Cross.

Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, in London on a three-month course, were stabbed nearly 250 times on June 29 last year in Mr Bonomo’s Sterling Gardens bedsit.

After the Old Bailey jury delivered its verdict, Laurent’s father Guy Bonomo says Sonnex looked into his eyes, shrugged his shoulders and swore at him.

Mr Bonomo said: “That was the real person. But he played a game and he lost.

“After the verdict we could finally look at them. We could say ‘you’re guilty now Mr Farmer, do you still have on your pretty face the little smile you had for six weeks?’

“Finally his smile’s been lost.

“And with Dano Sonnex we saw more and more that he’s a beast.”

The parents were told before the trial that Sonnex was only free to walk the streets after a series of blunders by police and probation officers.

Minister for Justice Jack Straw has apologised twice to the parents, but they now plan legal action.

Mr Bonomo said: “We want justice for the mistakes and we want the people directly or indirectly involved in this murder to face justice.”

During the trial, details were revealed of how friends and relatives of Sonnex had allegedly helped dispose of evidence and helped the killers to go on the run.

Mr Bonomo said: “For me they are cowards.

“When you hear all that was said in the trial you start to think how many other people have cried, have suffered because of this family? And how many other people live like this?”

The two students’ stabbed bodies were only found after a fire at the bedsit, started by Farmer at around 10pm on June 29 last year.

Ms Villemont, aged 48, said police came to her door on June 30 to say her son’s body had been found.

She said: “I smashed the door closed on them - I didn’t want them to get in.

“But they came in because they said they wanted to tell me something important about Gabriel.

“I knew what it was but they told me and I screamed.”

Mr Bonomo said: “Me, I was completely knocked over. Your reaction is ‘it’s just not possible, perhaps it’s not him perhaps other people now live in the flat’.

“You try to look for another possibility.”

The 45-year-old went on: “Since the very beginning we wanted to know how that happened and why.

“You wanted to know how can human beings do that.”

Both parents say their sons were enjoying London life and looking forward to their future careers.

Ms Villemont said: “Gabriel loved where he was living, loved to discover the local pubs even though he did not drink a lot.

“He loved mainly to learn everything - he was grabbing everything he could in life.”

Mr Bonomo said his son, who loved chess and rugby, had chosen the tiny New Cross bedsit so he could have some privacy with his girlfriend.

He said: “Laurent loved London and had come many times. He was just a happy guy.

“For him New Cross was ok - it was a simple place where he could be with his girlfriend and that was enough.”