Quentin Davies' Niece Jessica Admits She Is A "Monster" For Killing Olivier Mugnier

Jessica Davies, although admitting she was a "monster", still has no idea why she plunged a knife into 24-year-old Olivier Mugnier, killing him.

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British born, but raised in France, 30-year-old Davies was obviously mentally unstable. Although from a wealthy family and niece of British Minister Quentin Davies,she had a very troubled life. After her parents' divorce, her father Richard left France to be with his Italian lover. Eventually her mother left Paris too, and she was left to fend for herself other than a flat and money provided by her parents. And she wasn't the only one with mental issues; mental illness seemed to run in the families of both her mother and father.

During Jessica’s childhood, her maternal grandmother made repeated attempts to kill herself. There was instability in her father’s family, too. Richard’s brother Julian was a schizophrenic who at one point tried to kill his mother over the alleged non-payment of a debt. Jessica’s capacity for erratic behaviour was seen in her attempt to burn her day school down, followed by her transfer to boarding school.

According to an ex-boyfriend who was much older than she, Davies had an obsessive fascination with a black kitchen knife. That 6 inch blade, which she used as a bookmark, would eventually kill Mugnier, a one-night-stand she met at an Irish bar the evening she killed him. But it wasn't the first time it had been used on flesh; in August 2007 she used it on herself in a suicide attempt which required 27 stitches. And it wasn't the first time she had tried to kill herself, in 2004, she also attempted to end her life, albeit unsuccessfully. She's also what is known as a "cutter".

“I need to see blood to wake myself up to life - or leave it,” she said later, admitting to harbouring thoughts about suicide from the age of 11. Unfortunately, the blood did not have to be hers.

Three months later, on the night of November 11, the niece of Quentin Davies, the Conservative-turned-Labour MP and Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, used the knife again, sinking it five inches deep into the throat of Olivier Mugnier. Olivier, 24, jobless but carefree, had made the mistake of accepting a one-night stand at her flat in the affluent suburb of St Germain-en-Laye. The couple met in O'Sullivan’s, an Irish bar five minutes from her home.

I have personally known people who have the need to "cut" themselves. It's a cry for help, which isn't easily resolved, even with therapy. It's a bizarre mental affliction, which people have a difficult time controlling. Factor in alcohol and drugs (she was on the anti-depressant Effexor) which should never be mixed, plus mental illness (diagnosed by the court with borderline personality and narcissism) and it's a disaster waiting to happen. When the police found Mugnier in her flat, this is what she had to say, regarding the events leading up to and including the murder:

,,,she had initially used the knife to open a bottle of wine. Her victim had been too drunk to make love and was sitting up with his back to her.

“I just wanted to cut him a little but the knife went in by itself,” she later explained. “I remember a strange sensation, which must have been the knife going in, but no image at all. It was profoundly shocking and must have been the jolt that snapped me out of the state I was in.

“I remember being on the phone to the emergency services, one hand on the receiver, the other pressed to his throat.”

She told the paramedics: “I am a monster”, before being ushered by a female police officer into the tiny bathroom. As the ambulancemen worked frantically to stem the tide of blood issuing from Olivier’s throat, Jessica was examining herself in the mirror, grabbing a hairbrush and saying: “I look a state.”

Given all her problems, including drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuity and her suicide attempts, one has to wonder why she was not more closely monitored. I assume she was under psychiatric help, if she had been prescribed Effexor, but why were there no psychiatric evaluations performed prior to the murder?

The court places blame on both of the parents:

A psychiatric report prepared on Jessica pointed to her father’s failure to exercise his authority during her adolesence and her mother’s “invasive” presence. Her father admitted in court that he had been “poorly placed” to assess his daughter’s situation following his departure for Italy, but he denied that she had intended to kill Mugnier. She had, he said, been “traumatised” by some events in her life.

The psychiatric report stated: “She (Jessica) had a tendency to seek refuge in a parallel world. Her amnesia over the facts appears genuine and she had serious narcissistic problems, she had a destructiveness and a borderline personality.

“Olivier was a means of separating from her partner. She had ambivalent feelings of desire and hatred towards men. He was a pure sexual object. Olivier failed to fill the void of Jessica Davies. And instead of taking it out on herself, Olivier freed her destructiveness.”

Davies will spend the next 15 years contemplating why she killed Mugnier. Perhaps she will get the psychiatric help she so desperately needs.