Auxerre

Herve Renard was the manager who brought him to Lille - but was sacked in November and, after only three Ligue 1 starts, Guirassy was sent on loan to second-tier Auxerre in January.

Arsenal, still managed by Arsene Wenger then, were reportedly scouting him during that loan spell to Auxerre.

After losing 4-0 to Auxerre in the French Cup fourth round – Arteta’s debut for the club – they finished bottom of their second-round group in the Champions League and only narrowly clinched a top-half finish on the final day of the season.

With the prospect of finding who had killed Miss Parrish fading, her parents kept up pressure on the authorities and visited Auxerre regularly.

Miss Parrish, from Newnham-on-Severn in Gloucestershire, had been working as a teaching assistant at a school in Auxerre in France when in May 1990, just a fortnight before she was due to finish, she placed an advert in a local paper offering English lessons.