PLEINE-FOUGERES A man was in custody last night after being arrested by French police in connection with the murder and rape of a 13 year old British schoolgirl, Caroline Dickinson.
A police spokesman confirmed they were questioning a suspect about the girl's death at a youth hostel in PleineFougeres, near St Malo, in Brittany, last Thursday.
The man in custody, who is aged about 40 and of no fixed address, was picked up by police on Saturday in northwest France, but was not formally arrested until yesterday.
According to judicial sources, he has confessed to raping and smothering the girl, whose body was found by four friends sleeping in the room where she was attacked.