She said if Mr Van Colle had been placed in temporary safe accommodation pending the trial it was "very unlikely" that the murder would have taken place.
Without showing him any of the clothes from his first couture show a romantic-futurist collection with nods to Dior classics like the Bar jacket Simons summoned Colle to Paris to prepare arrangements for the walls around the runway.
In the landmark ruling in March the judge found the police had acted unlawfully, in violation of Article 2 and Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, by failing to discharge their positive obligation to protect Mr Van Colle's life.