Two years have passed but their sentence remains intact. In the columns of the newspaper Ouest-France, the parents of Leslie Hoorelbeke – murdered with her companion Kevin Trompat on the night of November 25 to 26, 2022 – returned this Monday to her disappearance and their mourning. “It was a missed basket but it was a ball of love. We miss everything about her, her joy of living, her messiness,” they first describe.
Leslie Hoorelbeke and Kevin Trompat were killed when they were invited to dinner with one of their friends, in the small village of Prahecq (Deux-Sèvres). A few kilometers away, four other people, including Leslie's former flirt – Tom Trouillet – were plotting the assassination of the couple formed three weeks earlier. “At first we thought they were just partying. But very quickly, we became worried,” remembers Émilie Cadré, her mother-in-law.
After the discovery of Leslie and Kevin's clothes on December 8, 2022, the parents went to the gendarmerie to identify the items. “It was like in the movies, with the little ruler on the side. At that moment, we thought that she was being kidnapped and that someone was having fun planting clues,” recalls Patrick Hoorelbeke, Leslie’s father.
A few weeks later, Leslie's body was finally found. After that, “we have six months of blank. Impossible to tell you what we did. We were very surrounded. People have done a lot of things to help us but everything is unclear,” explains the mother-in-law.
In this case, five men, including Tom Trouillet, were indicted for reasons ranging from murder to concealment of a corpse. “It’s heavy to be angry all the time. It eats us from the inside to want so many bad things towards those who did this to her,” confides Leslie’s mother-in-law. “Today, we want the education to go to the end,” concludes Patrick Hoorlebeke.
