Criminology student Nasen Saadi had so many questions one teacher asked him if he was planning murder, trial told
A criminology student could have stabbed a woman to death on a Dorset beach because he wanted to know what it would be like to take a life and how it would feel to make a woman feel afraid, a jury has been told.
Saadi, 20, told police he was fascinated by true crime and had been in Bournemouth at the time of the attacks, but he denied any involvement. He has pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder. She added: “He left them on the sand to bleed to death while he moved away and tried to disappear back into the shadows, away from the glare of the streetlights or the moonlight and back into anonymity. He got rid of his weapon. He changed his clothes and shoes and got rid of them.”
The barrister said his interest in criminology was not academic. At the end of one lecture he asked a teacher about the concept of self-defence to a murder charge and about DNA. The lecturer asked him: “You’re not planning a murder are you?” On 21 May he travelled to Bournemouth and began carrying out what the prosecution said was reconnaissance. He also went to the cinema and watched the horror film The Strangers: Chapter 1, a slasher home invasion movie where assailants chase the inhabitants with knives.On the night of the killing, Gray and Miles met at 10pm and sat close to the water to enjoy a bonfire and picnic. Miles told police: “It was just really nice and peaceful and calm.
Saadi left Bournemouth the next morning. He was arrested on 28 May. Police found knives in his bedside drawer and hidden between a wall and wardrobe. His parents supplied police with another two knives and an axe that they had taken from him. None of these knives could be connected forensically with the stabbing of Gray or Miles, the court heard.
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