French serial killer who murdered Briton Joanna Parrish dies aged 79

Michel Fourniret (Michel Spingler/AP)

A French serial killer sentenced twice to life imprisonment for the murder of eight women has died aged 79, the Paris prosecutor said.

Michel Fourniret, one of France’s most notorious serial killers, died in a secure unit of a Paris hospital, prosecutor Remy Heitz said in a statement.