‘Weird man’ seen at death hostel

A STUDENT spoke yesterday of the “weird” man who appeared in a youth hostel on the night Caroline Dickinson was raped and murdered as she slept.

Amy White, now a 21-year-old student, was a fellow Launceston College pupil on the trip to Brittany in July 1996. She was sleeping in a dormitory opposite Caroline.

Yesterday she told the trial of the man accused of killing Caroline about the encounter with the "evil" stranger as she and two classmates went to the toilet in the youth hostel in Pleine-Fougeres.