Frenchman gets life for 'frenzied' attack on UK teen

A Frenchman was was jailed for life today for a frenzied knife attack on a schoolgirl as she walked through a park in the UK.

Mon, 08 Dec, 2008 - 15:16

A Frenchman was was jailed for life today for a frenzied knife attack on a schoolgirl as she walked through a park in the UK.

Jessica Knight, then 14, was listening to her iPod when Kristofer Beddar, 21, launched the unprovoked assault in Lancashire, stabbing her 20 times in the chest, neck, stomach and back.

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