Appeal: Adriano Araujo da Silva.  Adriano Araujo da Silva:
Claimed police forced him to confess. Photo: Alastair Miller
NANTERRE: A Frenchman has lost his appeal to overturn his
30-year jail sentence for murdering Australian student Jeannette
O'Keefe, who was beaten, strangled and dumped in a car park
outside Paris.  Brazilian-born Adriano Araujo Da Silva, 37, was
found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison in January last
year for the murder 11 years earlier of 28-year-old Jeannette
O'Keefe.  Ms O'Keefe's body was found rolled up in a sleeping
bag in a parking lot in the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux on
January 2, 2001 after a series of events left her alone and
without a bed for the night on New Year's Eve.  Jeanette O'Keefe
... murdered in 2001.  Jeanette O'Keefe: Murdered in 2001.
Photo: Penny Stephens  Araujo Da Silva insisted he was innocent
throughout the appeal hearing in the Paris suburb of Nanterre
that began on Tuesday. But the court rejected his appeal and
upheld the original sentence.  Araujo