Daval's lawyer reacts after client's full confession A Frenchman charged with murdering his wife in a case that gripped France has admitted to partially burning her body after brutally beating her. Jonathann Daval's lawyer, Randall Schwerdorffer, says he is "more than satisfied" with his client's full confession following a meticulous police reconstruction of the events this morning. The charred body of Alexia Daval, a 29-year-old bank employee, had been found hidden under tree branches near their town of Gray-la-Ville in eastern France in October 2017. Her husband had already confessed to killing her but until now had not admitted to burning her body after the crime. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES (COMPLETES VID1358161_EN, VID1358175_EN, VID1358103_EN)