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Nasen Saadi, a criminology student, was accused of spending a month planning the random murder of two women on a beach in Bournemouth. Winchester Crown Court heard that Mr Saadi killed Amie Gray, 34, and seriously injured 38-year-old Leanne Miles on Durley Chine Beach on May 24. He denies the charges of murder and attempted murder.
Sarah Jones KC, prosecuting, told the jury that Mr Saadi “seems to have wanted to know what it would be like to take life.” She said that he began in April to choose a place for the attack, researching beaches in the south of England and settling on Bournemouth. On the night of the stabbings, the two women were sitting on the sand where they lit a fire and watched the full moon.
Ms Jones said that “with purpose, slowly, stealthily and quietly; when he thought no-one would observe him, he hovered at the edges of the promenade, then stepped on to the sand. In an act horrifying in its savagery and randomness, he stabbed them both multiple times, chasing after them as they tried to escape or divert him from the other and he continued his attack. He left them on the sand to bleed to death whilst 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.”
Ms Gray was pronounced dead at the scene, while Ms Miles was taken to the hospital to be treated for stab wounds to her chest and back. The defendant, who had researched whether people would be on the beach and “hotels without CCTV,” may have wanted to feel powerful or make women afraid, the prosecutor said.
The court heard Mr Saadi asked a lecturer at the University of Greenwich in 2023 about pleading self-defence to murder and DNA evidence. The lecturer replied: “You’re not planning a murder, are you?,” the jury was told. The trial continues
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