Research & reports
| Author | Emma Cluley |
| Published date | 01 March 2010 |
| Date | 01 March 2010 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0264550510365127 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Serious Further Offence: The case of Dano Sonnex
Dano Sonnex was convicted, with Nigel Farmer, of the murder of two French students,
Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez on 29 June 2008 at their at in New Cross in
the London Borough of Lewisham. They were victims of a burglary, during which
they were bound, tortured and killed by Farmer and Sonnex, who stabbed their
victims up to 200 times both before and after death, and then tried to conceal the
crime by setting re to the ground oor at. Below are summaries of three reports
that have considered the Serious Further Offence (SFO) from a local perspective;
the prison context, and cross-agency communication. They are not comprehensive
summaries of the reports, and instead aim to highlight the different salient issues
raised in the separate reports.
At the time of the offence Sonnex was at large having been recalled by London
Probation Area (LPA) on 3 June 2008, 15 days prior to the offence taking place.
At age 17 Sonnex received eight years detention for assault with intent to resist
arrest, having imitation rearms with intent, attempted robber y, robbery ×4 and
wounding with intent (GBH s18). The unprovoked stabbing against a young man
he knew occurred when Sonnex was age 16 and the victim sustained a collapsed
lung. The robberies took place when he was age 17 and while in possession of a
blank ring pistol and a knife, of which both were used.
Offender management of Dano Sonnex:
The local context
For all cases under the supervision of National Probation Service that are charged
with an alleged SFO, the local probation area or trust conducts an investigation
and review of the case in order to establish whether the quality of the supervision
of the offender and the level of the supervision had any bearing on the alleged
offence. This summary of the full review undertaken by LPA provides some of the
chronological information and key assessment stages alongside the issues and
learning points raised from the review.
The pre-sentence report completed by a Youth Offending Team (YOT) assessed
Sonnex’s risk of harm to be ‘very high’ (p. 14). The case was transferred to London
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Copyright © 2010 NAPO Vol 57(1): 83–88
DOI: 10.1177/0264550510365127
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