Florida charge for Caroline suspect

12 April 2012

The man alleged to have murdered British schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson, is due to appear in a Florida court today.

Francisco Arce Montez, 51, is expected at a preliminary hearing in Palm Beach County, near Miami, before his trial on charges of committing a sex offence.

He has already been ordered to be extradited to France to face charges that he raped and murdered Caroline, 13, at a Brittany hostel while her schoolmates from Cornwall slept beside her in 1996.

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