The parents of a British woman murdered in France more than 30 years said they wish the guillotine had brought back for the 'evil' couple responsible.<br /><br />Joanna Parrish, 20, was working as a teaching assistant at a school in France when she placed an advert offering English lessons in a local newspaper.<br /><br />Michel Fourniret, dubbed the 'Ogre of the Ardennes' and regarded as one of France's worst serial killers, responded to the advert in May 1990 and the pair met.<br /><br />Joanna, from Newnham-on-Severn, Glos., was never seen alive again and her body was discovered in the River Yonne, near Auxerre, France the following day.<br /><br />Fourniret confessed to murdering 11 females - including Joanna - but died in 2021 before he could stand trial.<br /><br />At the time he was serving a life sentence for the murders of seven girls and young women - and died in 2021.<br /><br />But after his ex-wife Monique Olivier, now 75, was given a second life term this week for her role in the murders, Joanna's parents said they felt some 'relief' at the verdict - but held nothing but hatred for her killers.<br /><br />Her mum Pauline Murrell said: "It really wasn't necessary for all those other girls to die. I really wish they still had hanging, actually… I thought a guillotine would be ideal.<br /><br />"That's what I kept looking at her (Olivier) and thinking. I'd guillotine you and I'd sit there with my knitting and watch."<br /><br />Olivier was charged with complicity in Joanna's murder, as well as complicity in the murder of 18-year-old Marie-Angèle Domèce in 1988.<br /><br />She was also accused of the kidnap of nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin, whose body has never been found.<br /><br />The couple said that although Fourniret wasn't alive to be held accountable for their daughter's murder - they were relieved he was no longer able to hurt anyone else.<br /><br />Pauline added: "I think I feel mainly that, thank God, he's not around to kill anybody else.<br /><br />"She won't be around, but I just can't help but think that if the police at the beginning, the gens d'armes, had at the beginning done their job properly, then a lot of other girls would still be alive - because he would have been caught.<br /><br />"But, I don't know why they didn't, they just were completely inadequate. That's my main feeling; it wasn't necessary."<br /><br />Dad Roger Parrish added: "I think I would have wanted to have faced him in court, but frankly, I don't really think that would have made any difference to him anyway, knowing the kind of person that he was, a psychopath… a completely narcissistic psychopath, who only thought of himself.<br /><br />"I would have wanted to have been there when he was still alive. But he's dead now and the world's a better place for it."<br /><br />Before the jury retired to consider their verdicts, Olivier said: "I regret everything I did and I ask for forgiveness from the families of the victims, while knowing that it is unforgivable."
