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Byline: Stephen Wright

THE two French students murdered in an orgy of barbaric violence mayhave been tortured for their bank details, it emerged yesterday.

Detectives suspect Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were killed in arobbery that escalated into the horrific double murder.

It is understood that credit and charge cards are missing from the rented flatin New Cross, South-East London, where Mr Bonomo and Mr Ferez were gagged, tiedto chairs, stabbed 243 times in the head, chest and back and finally set onfire.

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