pastry shop

“She knows everything about the hotel,” said Evelyne Gibert, manager of the Biltmore’s pastry shop.

The court was told Alid was a patisserie chef who ran a coffee and pastry shop in Algeria but left in 2007, moving around Europe before arriving in the UK illegally in 2020 via a ferry from Amsterdam.

Mr Alid said he then spent short periods in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Austria, before returning to Germany in 2014 for four years, and then Spain for a further two years where he worked in a pastry shop.

And the sought-after corn cake at nearby Lysée, a Korean-French pastry shop?

After fleeing Syria two years ago to avoid military service, Kanaan had found a steady job in a pastry shop in the Libyan city and lived with two Sudanese roommates a few metres away from Derna's riverbed.