He then went on to kill the family's solicitor and a colleague at the Whitehaven taxi rank.

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He is the sort of man who, when in Paris for the Air Show, eschews the obvious top hotels for a more discreet one in a backstreet near the Arc de Triomphe the kind of place with no taxi rank, but a sprinkling of Bentleys and Ferraris parked at the front.

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The man had just put money in the safe when he was grabbed by a man who had been standing at a nearby taxi rank.

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