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The Algerian migrant who murdered French schoolgirl Lola Daviet has been handed the harshest prison sentence possible under French law.

Dahbia Benkired was two months overdue her scheduled deportation when she brutally killed Lola.

Benkired lured the girl into an apartment, sexually assaulted her, and attacked her with scissors and a box cutter.

She then bound the 12-year-old with tape, suffocating her to death, before partially severing her head and stuffing her body into a suitcase.

The Algerian has been sentenced to life imprisonment, becoming the first woman in France to receive such a punishment.

It's the harshest sentence possible since France abolished the death penalty in 1981, and has only been used in extraordinary cases.

Salah Abdeslam, the sole Islamist terrorist to have survived the Isis November 2015 Paris attacks, was given the same prison term.

The judge at Paris's Assize Court condemned Benkired's "extreme cruelty" and "true torture" of young Lola.

"In determining the appropriate sentence, the court took into account the unspeakable psychological damage to the victim and her family in such violent and almost unspeakable circumstances," he said.

Prosecutors had revealed how the migrant had "psychopathic" traits but was otherwise sane.

"Make no mistake: no drug treatment can fundamentally transform Ms Benkired's personality. When there is no illness, there is no treatment," one said.

Benkired was in France on a student visa, which she failed to renew. In July 2022, just months before the October murder, she was stopped at an airport in Paris and given 30 days to leave the country.