A man charged with murdering two French students found dead in a blazing London bedsit is due in court as detectives question two other suspects.
A man has appeared in court charged with murdering two French students.
Nigel Farmer, 33, of no fixed address, is accused of murdering Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both 23, as well as arson, at the bedsit in New Cross.
Nigel Farmer, 33, of no fixed address, is accused of murdering Gabriel Ferez and Laurent Bonomo, both 23, at a bedsit in New Cross, south-east London.
Police are continuing to question a man aged 35 and a 25-year-old woman arrested on Wednesday over the deaths.
Police are continuing to question a man aged 35 and a woman, 25, arrested on Wednesday over the deaths on 29 June.
Mr Farmer is scheduled to appear before Greenwich Magistrates' Court.
Mr Farmer, also charged with arson and attempting to pervert the course of justice, was remanded in custody by Greenwich magistrates until 16 October.
He is also charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
He is due to appear at the Old Bailey on that date.
Bedsit explosion
Detectives arrested Mr Farmer after he walked into Lewisham police station in the early hours of Monday.
He was initially taken to hospital, under guard, for treatment to serious burns to his hands and arms.
The badly burned bodies of Mr Ferez and Mr Bonomo were found on 29 June, following an explosion in the ground-floor bedsit in Sterling Gardens.
They had been bound, gagged and sustained hundreds of stab wounds between them, before being set alight.
Forensic searches at the severely damaged ground-floor property in Sterling Gardens could continue for several weeks.
Detectives have previously said the students may have been attacked by more than one assailant.
