I am sorry, says killer Rouget

Wednesday 2nd April 2008, 2:30PM BST.

Advocate Peter Ferbrache outside the court. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0557940)

A TEENAGER who murdered James Dean offered an apology to his victim’s family yesterday.

Craig Rouget, through Advocate Peter Ferbrache, said he was sorry for the Dean family for what had happened. The message was conveyed a few minutes after the Guernsey Court of Appeal had rejected the 19-year-old’s appeal against his murder conviction.

Rouget stabbed to death the 21-year-old painter and decorator during an altercation in the High Street on a Saturday evening in September 2006. ‘It was an event that got out of all proportion,’ said Advocate Ferbrache. ‘Craig knows that it is something that the Dean family will have to live with for the rest of their lives and he will too.’