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A murder investigation has been launched after a woman was found stabbed to death on a beach in Bournemouth.
Dorset Police said officers were called to reports of a double stabbing on Durley Chine Beach at 23:42 BST on Friday.
One woman, aged 34 and from Poole, was pronounced dead at the scene while a 38-year-old woman, also from Poole, is in hospital "with very serious injuries", police said.
Supt Gavin House said: "No arrests have been made at this time."
"A full and detailed investigation is under way.
“Our thoughts are with the loved ones of the woman who very tragically lost her life."
Dorset Police said the area around Durley Chine Beach has been cordoned off so officers can carry out a thorough investigation.
Supt House added there will be an increased police presence in the coming days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c888v8lgx2zo
Vanessa
25-05-2024, 09:41 AM
It's a nice beach, but I wouldn't want to be there after dark. It's not safe.
Rip to the poor woman.
arista
25-05-2024, 12:00 PM
[Boy, 17, arrested on suspicion of murder
after woman dies in Bournemouth beach stabbing.
A 17-year-old boy from Lancashire
has been arrested on suspicion of murder
after a 34-year-old woman died after being stabbed
on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth on
Friday evening,
Dorset Police said.
3 mins ago]
Just on SkyNewsHD Live
[Superintendent Gavin House said:
"Our thoughts are with the loved ones
of the woman who very tragically
lost her life.
“I would ask anyone who saw what
happened or has any information about
the offender and has not yet spoken to
officers to please contact us urgently."]
https://news.sky.com/story/bournemouth-woman-dies-after-two-stabbed-on-durley-chine-beach-13142793
Cherie
25-05-2024, 02:19 PM
Robbery?
Just awful what kind of person does that to two innocent women walking on a beach
…this is so shockingly awful….why didn’t you just update this one, Arista…why make a new thread…?….
https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=391291
I tried to merge the threads and accidentally merged it with the football thread at first :skull:
Now corrected but I lost the title so feel free to edit it
I tried to merge the threads and accidentally merged it with the football thread at first :skull:
Now corrected but I lost the title so feel free to edit it
it's the Man U excitement :laugh:
arista
26-05-2024, 09:38 AM
Police Live SkyNewsHD
has asked people not to speculate online.
The 17-year-old Evil Lad
is in custody
The other women he stabbed
is in hospital.
arista
26-05-2024, 09:39 AM
Are they Hookers?
Mystic Mock
26-05-2024, 09:42 AM
Police Live SkyNewsHD
has asked people not to speculate online.
The 17-year-old Evil Lad
is in custody
The other women he stabbed
is in hospital.
I think that I have an idea what his motive might've been.
But tbf I could very likely be well wrong, hopefully the Police will find out.
arista
26-05-2024, 09:43 AM
I think that I have an idea what his motive might've been.
But tbf I could very likely be well wrong, hopefully the Police will find out.
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In a statement Det Supt Richard Dixey, of the major crime investigation team, said: "We recognise the impact this incident has on our communities and are aware of speculation already appearing online about the possible circumstances.
"It is important to state that our investigation is still in the very early stages and it is unhelpful to speculate as to why this tragedy has happened, especially as an arrest has been made."
He added: "I want to reassure our communities in Dorset as well as the many people who choose to visit our county during the bank holiday weekend that we are exploring all available lines of enquiry to establish the motives for this horrendous incident."
…full article…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-69063125
…I don’t know what the online speculation is…
arista
26-05-2024, 10:19 AM
…I don’t know what the online speculation is…
Could be the women are hookers
Cherie
26-05-2024, 11:10 AM
Could be the women are hookers
or could be homophobic?
arista
26-05-2024, 11:23 AM
or could be homophobic?
Sure.
At least the police can ask the one lady in the hospital
when she is more stable
arista
27-05-2024, 01:31 AM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361791-13462115-image-a-9_1716756645789.jpg
Police want to know who he is
arista
27-05-2024, 01:53 AM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361123-13462115-Fitness_trainer_Amie_Gray_was_named_as_the_victim_ of_the_horrifi-m-6_1716756271170.jpg
[Fitness trainer Amie Gray was named
as the victim of the horrific beach stabbing]
[Friends of Amie Gray paid tribute to a
'wonderful human being who didn't have any enemies']
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13462115/Police-release-CCTV-images-Bournemouth-stabbing-suspect-34-year-old-fitness-trainer-Amie-Gray-stabbed-death-beach.html
Mystic Mock
27-05-2024, 05:57 AM
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I was thinking Incel ideology.
arista
27-05-2024, 06:13 AM
I was thinking Incel ideology.
Looking at his Photo
Yes.
Mystic Mock
27-05-2024, 06:16 AM
Looking at his Photo
Yes.
It's also the fact that he is in the age group where young men are susceptible to falling into that kind of ideology.
…I don’t know why the CCTV images were released when he’s already been arrested and charged…all very, very awful and feels like ‘being in the wrong place at the wrong time’, with no connection whatsoever beyond that…we’ll know more as the trial unfolds but that’ll be a while yet…
arista
27-05-2024, 07:19 AM
…I don’t know why the CCTV images were released when he’s already been arrested and charged…all very, very awful and feels like ‘being in the wrong place at the wrong time’, with no connection whatsoever beyond that…we’ll know more as the trial unfolds but that’ll be a while yet…
Simply for Police to hear from anyone
who was there that night and did see him.
Simply for Police to hear from anyone
who was there that night and did see him.
…ahh yes, of course…I’ve just woken up and my thoughts aren’t working yet…but that’s obviously important to track his activities and locations on the lead up to his awful act…
Vanessa
27-05-2024, 08:21 AM
I've always found that side of the beach a bit rough.
I always on the other side.
arista
27-05-2024, 02:23 PM
17-year-old Suspect
Now released without charge
SkyNewsHD Live
So that Photo is Not the 17-year-old
arista
27-05-2024, 02:28 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361789-13462115-Releasing_CCTV_of_a_young_suspect_who_has_been_arr ested_is_a_rar-a-15_1716756814914.jpg
arista
27-05-2024, 02:29 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361793-13462115-The_images_of_a_suspect_show_him_wearing_dark_clot hing_with_his_-m-14_1716756809496.jpg
3rd image Police have released
of the possible killer
arista
27-05-2024, 02:30 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/12/85349695-13461225-image-a-5_1716721971856.jpg
Crimson Dynamo
27-05-2024, 02:35 PM
Man, 24, appears in court charged with the rape and sexual assault of two 15-
year-old girls at Bournemouth beach
Antony Demetriades is alleged to have attacked them in an alleyway
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451255/Man-24-charged-raping-sexually-assaulting-two-teenage-girls-Bournemouth-beach.html
Crimson Dynamo
27-05-2024, 02:35 PM
Ness, steer clear of Bournemouth
Cherie
27-05-2024, 02:44 PM
17-year-old Suspect
Now released on Bail.
SkyNewsHD Live
So that Photo is Not the 17-year-old
so they got the wrong person
arista
27-05-2024, 02:59 PM
so they got the wrong person
Yes happens alot.
Plus the New 3 Photos
cancel the lad.
arista
27-05-2024, 03:01 PM
Infact 17-year-old
released without charge
arista
27-05-2024, 03:05 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361791-13462115-image-a-9_1716756645789.jpg
Police want to know who he is
Police need to find this Fella
arista
27-05-2024, 03:08 PM
The Killer still at large.
Strange BBC not updating
like SkyNewsHD
and other news feed
arista
27-05-2024, 03:21 PM
Fitness trainer Amie Gray who Died
the other lady is her partner
in hospital in critical.
Thank you Lady reporter
just speaking Live on SkyNewsHD
arista
27-05-2024, 03:23 PM
or could be homophobic?
Yes
Police have now Confirmed
the lady in the hospital is her partner
Vanessa
27-05-2024, 03:31 PM
Ness, steer clear of Bournemouth
It's a bit far from me. I usually go to Southend or Brighton.
…so the CCTV images are of the suspected killer and not the 17yr old who has been questioned and released….?…/…confused….
…so the CCTV images are of the suspected killer and not the 17yr old who has been questioned and released….?…/…confused….
Released without charges
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so they got the wrong person
Or just don't have enough evidence atm
A teenage boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death on a beach has been released without charge.
The woman, named locally as Amie Gray, 34, from Poole, died at the scene on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth shortly before midnight on Friday.
Another woman, aged 38, was seriously injured and remains in hospital.
The 17-year-old from Lancashire has been eliminated from inquiries, Dorset Police said.
…it does seem as though the 17yr old isn’t the killer, he’s been eliminated completely from the investigation/as a suspect….
arista
27-05-2024, 06:22 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/27/17/85389809-0-image-m-1_1716829035515.jpg
A teenage boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death on a beach has been released without charge.
The woman, named locally as Amie Gray, 34, from Poole, died at the scene on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth shortly before midnight on Friday.
Another woman, aged 38, was seriously injured and remains in hospital.
The 17-year-old from Lancashire has been eliminated from inquiries, Dorset Police said.
…it does seem as though the 17yr old isn’t the killer, he’s been eliminated completely from the investigation/as a suspect….
Yeah it does from that
What an awful story, surely the survivor can help identify the suspect at least
Fitness trainer Amie Gray who Died
the other lady is her partner
in hospital in critical.
Thank you Lady reporter
just speaking Live on SkyNewsHD
…I’m a bit confused with this as well…her partner was the other lady who was stabbed and who has serious injuries…but her wife has paid tribute that Amie was a wonderful wife and mother…so an ex wife…?…not the lady/partner in hospital, obviously…?….
Crimson Dynamo
27-05-2024, 07:49 PM
BREAKING NEWS; Folks here👇is the STAGGERING Increase in Rapes in
BOURNEMOUTH in the past 13yrs >UP from 98 in 2010 to Yes a STAGGERING
342 last year
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOlwoVSWkAECgu-?format=jpg&name=small
https://x.com/NormanBrennan/status/1795089768746832100
arista
27-05-2024, 10:43 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/27/15/85387913-0-image-a-26_1716821624596.jpg
Mystic Mock
27-05-2024, 10:50 PM
Man, 24, appears in court charged with the rape and sexual assault of two 15-
year-old girls at Bournemouth beach
Antony Demetriades is alleged to have attacked them in an alleyway
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13451255/Man-24-charged-raping-sexually-assaulting-two-teenage-girls-Bournemouth-beach.html
Well isn't he a charmer.
I wonder if security will have to be tight around him in Prison? Because I have a feeling that he won't be too popular.
BREAKING NEWS; Folks here[emoji116]is the STAGGERING Increase in Rapes in
BOURNEMOUTH in the past 13yrs >UP from 98 in 2010 to Yes a STAGGERING
342 last year
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOlwoVSWkAECgu-?format=jpg&name=small
https://x.com/NormanBrennan/status/1795089768746832100
Those 2024 figures must be well out of date
5/12 of last years total rapes would be approximately 140
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arista
28-05-2024, 01:55 AM
…I’m a bit confused with this as well…her partner was the other lady who was stabbed and who has serious injuries…but her wife has paid tribute that Amie was a wonderful wife and mother…so an ex wife…?…not the lady/partner in hospital, obviously…?….
As it was said on SkyNewsHD
Live at that time, her Partner is in hospital.
Was not confusing at that time.
As it was said on SkyNewsHD
Live at that time, her Partner is in hospital.
Was not confusing at that time.
…yeah, Arista…I read that too…that her partner is the one ‘fighting for her life’ in hospital atm…is what is being reported…but the tributes from her wife also read as if it was an ongoing marriage/relationship of the present, so I’m a little confused…but I’m sure it’ll become more clear in the up and coming…
arista
28-05-2024, 02:28 PM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361693-0-image-a-8_1716756427039.jpg
Cherie
28-05-2024, 02:33 PM
Could they have been targeted ..
arista
28-05-2024, 02:37 PM
Could they have been targeted ..
Police need to give a new update
arista
28-05-2024, 04:42 PM
From ITV1HD Lunch news
The Beach is now open.
The killer is still not Identified.
Cherie
28-05-2024, 04:46 PM
Police need to give a new update
You have to wonder why the police picked up that young lad so quickly kept him over the weekend and then released him, did they not want people to cancel there bank holiday trips or something, something about this feels a bit odd, maybe they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but the way the killer has just disappeared makes you wonder if there is more too it ...time will tell
Police search cliffs after fatal beach stabbing….
Officers are carrying out cliffside searches as part of a murder investigation into the death of a woman on Bournemouth beach.
Flowers have also been left on the beach at the scene where Amie Gray was fatally stabbed on Friday.
Ms Gray, a 34-year-old personal trainer from Poole, died at the scene on Durley Chine Beach shortly before midnight.
Another woman, aged 38, was seriously injured and remains in hospital.
A cordon put in place along the promenade has now been lifted but searches continue.
On Tuesday morning, search teams could be seen lowering themselves down the cliff on ropes, hacking back undergrowth.
On Sunday, police issued CCTV images of a man they want to speak to in a bid to prompt witnesses to come forward.
…full article…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnpl9yjq8o
Cherie
28-05-2024, 09:26 PM
After a manhunt, Dorset Police worked with colleagues in London to arrest the 20-year-old man, from the Croydon area, on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Detective Superintendent Richard Dixey, of the force's major crime investigation team, said: "The investigation has progressed at speed over recent days, which has now led to an arrest being made in London.
Sky News
Mystic Mock
28-05-2024, 09:45 PM
After a manhunt, Dorset Police worked with colleagues in London to arrest the 20-year-old man, from the Croydon area, on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Detective Superintendent Richard Dixey, of the force's major crime investigation team, said: "The investigation has progressed at speed over recent days, which has now led to an arrest being made in London.
Sky News
I wonder when Sky Sports News will discuss it? As after all they don't like discussing Sports at all on that channel. They're more like Sky News than Sky News itself.
Sarcasm against Sky aside, hopefully the Police have caught the right guy this time.
arista
29-05-2024, 01:26 AM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361789-13462115-Releasing_CCTV_of_a_young_suspect_who_has_been_arr ested_is_a_rar-a-15_1716756814914.jpg
Arrested
at last.
Mystic Mock
29-05-2024, 03:19 AM
That's good news.
…I’m so glad that the police have the person who did this in custody now…
Injured woman discharged from hospital as police quiz Bournemouth murder suspect…
A woman has been discharged from hospital after being seriously injured alongside Amie Gray – who was murdered on Bournemouth seafront – as police continue to question a 20-year-old man.
Officers were called to reports that two women from Poole had been stabbed on Durley Chine Beach at around 11.45pm on May 24.
Amie Gray, 34, was pronounced dead at the scene while a 38-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Dorset Police confirmed on Thursday afternoon that the injured woman had been released from hospital.
A force spokesman said: “She has now been discharged from hospital, although she is continuing her recovery and we would ask that her privacy is respected at this time.”
He added that the suspect, from the Croydon area, who was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, remained in police custody in Dorset.
Detective Superintendent Richard Dixey, of the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: “This has been a fast-moving and extensive investigation, which we continue to drive forward.
“The arrested suspect remains in custody having been transported from London to Bournemouth and is being interviewed by specialist detectives.
“Two locations in Bournemouth are being forensically examined and searched. Searches have also been conducted at two separate addresses in the Croydon area.
“We are continuing to update the loved ones of Amie Gray, as well as the woman who sustained serious injuries, with the latest developments as we progress our inquiries.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/injured-woman-discharged-hospital-police-154853710.html
…excellent news that the other lady is recovering well and no longer in hospital…:love:….I meant to say the other day when I read the words from Amie Gray’s wife that the lady in hospital wasn’t her partner, I don’t think…I think it might have stated that thought somewhere up the thread but I don’t think that was the case…
Mystic Mock
30-05-2024, 11:25 PM
It's definitely great news Ammi.
And hopefully this guy will face justice... Real justice.
arista
31-05-2024, 12:31 PM
…excellent news that the other lady is recovering well and no longer in hospital…:love:….I meant to say the other day when I read the words from Amie Gray’s wife that the lady in hospital wasn’t her partner, I don’t think…I think it might have stated that thought somewhere up the thread but I don’t think that was the case…
Yes good, she has gone home.
She did know the stabbed/murdered lady
Bournemouth beach killing: Man, 20, charged with murder after personal trainer stabbed to death…
A 20-year-old man from London has been charged with murder after a woman was stabbed to death on a beach in Bournemouth.
Amie Gray, a 34-year-old personal trainer from Poole in Dorset, was killed on Durley Chine Beach at around 11.45pm on Friday 24 May.
Now the suspect - Nasen Saadi - who is from Croydon in south London, has been charged with murder and attempted murder. A 38-year-old woman also suffered serious injuries during the attack.
The beach where the stabbing took place is one of Bournemouth's most popular, according to Visit Dorset, and is located west of the town's pier.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/bournemouth-beach-killing-man-20-085600839.html
Cherie
31-05-2024, 09:43 PM
What a pyscho, you travel from Croydon with a knife...why? and what did these two women do to him? robbery.... homophobia, hatred of women.... what was his motive.... too many women die at the hands of men...and its just accepted ....
Mystic Mock
01-06-2024, 12:26 AM
On paper I would say it looks like either Homophobic or Incel ideology breaking this guy down into what he has become.
I know both possibilities are an easy cop out opinion for me to hold, but I'm taking Gil Grissom's "follow the evidence" mantra, even if the evidence is circumstantial.
arista
01-06-2024, 03:00 AM
What a pyscho, you travel from Croydon with a knife...why? and what did these two women do to him? robbery.... homophobia, hatred of women.... what was his motive.... too many women die at the hands of men...and its just accepted ....
Yes like an Incel
arista
01-06-2024, 03:02 AM
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/05/26/21/85361791-13462115-image-a-9_1716756645789.jpg
Evil
arista
01-06-2024, 05:17 AM
Also is the Killer an Extreme Muslim?
Nasen Saadi is his name.
Livia
01-06-2024, 11:46 AM
If you let hundreds of thousands of men with no respect for women into a country, this is going to happen again and again. And it's not just the UK, it's all over Europe.
Crimson Dynamo
04-06-2024, 06:03 PM
A Muslim suspect named Nasen Saadi, from Croydon, London, is the suspect in the
stabbing spree murder of a young woman in Bournemouth on May 24. A second woman
was seriously injured but survived. A trial date is set for Nov. 25.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPPrlY3bIAAER83?format=jpg&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPPr8WKb0AADSzh?format=jpg&name=small
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1798041135413334244
This story is going to vanish fro the left-wing MSM like snow falling into a stream..
Vanessa
04-06-2024, 06:05 PM
Also is the Killer an Extreme Muslim?
Nasen Saadi is his name.
Could be....
A criminology student asked his lecturer how to get away with killing someone. Now he’s been found guilty of Bournemouth beach murder…
A criminology student who quizzed his lecturer on how best to get away with killing someone has been found guilty of stabbing physical trainer Amie Gray to death on Bournemouth beach.
Following a trial Nasen Saadi, 20, from Croydon, south London, was on Wednesday found guilty of the murder of Ms Gray, 34, at Durley Chine Beach, West Undercliff Promenade, on May 24. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Ms Gray’s friend, Leanne Miles, who was with her at the time.
Prosecutors posed that Saadi “wanted to know what it would be like to take life” after he became fascinated with murder, asking his criminology lecturer unrelated questions about self-defence justification for killing and DNA analysis.
Lecturer Dr Lisa-Maria Reiss told the court Saadi had asked questions on “how to get away with murder”.
She said she explained his questions were not relevant to the lecture but there would be police input later in the course and he could save his interest for then. The exchange prompted her to ask Saadi, “you’re not planning a murder are you?” but he didn’t reply.
The jury was shown footage of the fatal attack in which Saadi was seen “loitering” around his two victims before walking on to the sand and attacking them, and also seen running after one of the women in the prolonged incident.
Mrs Gray’s wife, Sian Gray thanked police and the emergency services for helping her and bringing “the justice that she deserves”.
“Amie will never be forgotten. She touched the lives of so many. The immense support and love shown by everyone, reflects just that,” she said in a statement.
“Amie’s life has been brutally taken but now she can rest in peace. Her strength lives on in all of us.”
Ms Miles, also injured in the attack, told police how she had heard Ms Gray scream “Get off me” from the dark beach before Saadi turned on her.
In a statement read out in court, she said: “I didn’t want to look at him. I couldn’t look at him. And I told him, I said, ‘please stop’. I said, ‘please stop, I’ve got children’. And then I think that’s when he started to go, he walked away.”
Benjamin May, a senior crown prosecutor with CPS Wessex, said: “This was a senseless attack which shocked the people of Bournemouth – and our deepest condolences remain with Amie Gray’s family.
“Though both victims were chosen at random, Nasen Saadi’s unfathomable desire to carry out a murder was backed up by extensive planning – which included going to great lengths to avoid getting caught.
Home Office pathologist Dr Basil Purdue told the court Ms Gray died as a result of 10 knife wounds, including one to the heart, while Ms Miles suffered 20 knife-related injuries.
The court heard Saadi was “fascinated” with knives and had bought six blades from websites, with several found at his aunt’s house where he was living as well as at his parents’ home.
Saadi used the name “Ninja Killer” for his Snapchat account and also used the username “NSkills” on his computer.
The student at Greenwich University, who was studying for a degree in criminology and criminal psychology after dropping out of a physical education course, had carried out searches about previous, highly publicised killings.
The court was told Saadi had booked accommodation for a four-night stay in Bournemouth starting May 21, and was seen on CCTV scouting the seafront and the scene of the murder, which happened at about 11.40pm on May 24.
Suggesting a motive for the attack, prosecutor Sarah Jones KC said: “This defendant seems to have wanted to know what it would be like to take life, perhaps he wanted to know what it would be like to make women feel afraid, perhaps he thought it would make him feel powerful, make him interesting to others.
“Perhaps he just couldn’t bear to see people engaged in a happy, normal social interaction and he decided to lash out, to hurt, to butcher.”
The defendant, who chose not to give evidence, admitted visiting Bournemouth but denied the offences and had claimed not to be the man shown in the CCTV footage, claiming it was a case of mistaken identity.
He told police in interview that he might have “blacked out” and had no memory of the period that included the attacks.
arista
19-12-2024, 02:14 AM
Nasen Saadi, 20,
Evil Scum
Livia
19-12-2024, 12:41 PM
Nothing on the news about this. What a surprise... and they wonder why Reform is gaining so much ground so fast.
Student with ‘rage’ against women jailed for at least 39 years for Bournemouth beach murder…
A criminology student with a fascination for knives and a “rage” against women who stabbed a mother to death on a Dorset beach has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 39 years.
Nasen Saadi, 21, spent months plotting the attack and questioning university lecturers about how a killer would get away with murder. He kitted himself up with latex gloves, a balaclava, wet wipes and nail clippers to try to avoid being traced.
On Friday, he was told he would serve at least 39 years and 65 days in prison for the murder of Amie Gray and the attempted murder of her friend Leanne Miles on Bournemouth beach one night last May. Gray, 34, a sports coach, was killed after a blade penetrated her heart.
Mrs Justice Cutts said Saadi had attacked Gray and Miles because he had a grievance against society and against women in particular. Rejection by girls and women had led to a “deeply suppressed rage” and the idea of becoming a notorious killer attracted him. She said he was an “extremely dangerous young man” who thought he had planned the “perfect crime”.
Winchester crown court was told that on the morning of his sentencing Saadi told a member of his legal team: “I never got noticed when I did a good thing. People have only noticed me when I did a bad thing.”
Sarah Jones KC, prosecuting, said a psychiatric report carried out after Saadi was convicted concluded he did not have autism spectrum disorder but exhibited features of that condition. She said he had a sense of grievance, an obsession with killing and a desire to feel powerful.
Saadi’s barrister, Charlie Sherrard KC, said his client now recognised his guilt and had engaged with the neurodiversity team in prison.
Sherrard said Saadi had never been in trouble before, was from a loving family and was “very much under the radar”.
He said the psychiatric report revealed Saadi had “repressed socially induced trauma resulting from a combination of real and perceived rejections and social humiliations resulting in him feeling alien from general society, a social misfit, somebody who had hardly any friends at school, had never had a girlfriend and seemed to be avoided”.
He had “significantly low self-esteem and a general sense of inadequacy”, which led to him becoming fascinated with violent films and “finding some level of fascination in the mind of a psychopath”. The barrister said: “There’s an ongoing sense of rage against society. The idea of high levels of notoriety became a valid goal in itself.”
The trial heard Saadi, from south London, had carefully researched how police investigated murders. After the attack, he hid his weapon and disposed of all the clothes he was wearing, leaving no traces of DNA or fingerprints at the scene.
Saadi refused to give police the passcode to his phone, stopping them from using technology to pinpoint him on the beach, but Dorset detectives built a strong circumstantial case that proved he was the murderer.
In the lead-up to the attack, Saadi bought six knives, including a machete and a hunting knife, and repeatedly searched for details of murders, including those of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey in Cheshire, 13-year-old Milly Dowler from Surrey, and the Miyazawa family, in Setagaya, Tokyo. His online pseudonyms included “Ninja Killer” and “NSKills”.
In her victim personal statement, Gray’s wife, Sian Gray, said the “world had fallen” from beneath the feet of her and the couple’s daughter.
She said: “I’m not the person I was before. I fight every day to keep my career on track and continue to be a role model for our daughter who is now growing up without one of her parents.
“I have to watch her drama performances, attend her army cadets remembrance parade and share her successes and disappointments, alone … the memories that should be shared.
“At the age of 36, I should not have to hold my deceased wife’s cold hand, nor should my daughter have to say goodbye and grieve over a coffin.
“Our tragedy has been a public display for all to see. Amie’s beautiful life has now been reduced to forever being remembered as ‘the murder victim’.”
Amie Gray’s mother, Sharon Macklin, said: “Amie was an amazing, funny, kind and energetic soul. She had a big smile and a loud laugh and when she entered the room it filled with laughter.”
Leanne Miles declined to give a statement because she did not want Saadi to have “any knowledge or understanding” of her.
The court heard that Saadi harboured strong misogynistic views, repeatedly telling fellow students at the University of Greenwich that women were weaker than men and should not work in certain jobs.
It is possible he may have taken sexual pleasure in the killing. While he was being held in the high-security Belmarsh prison in south-east London, awaiting trial, he asked a female officer if the killing was making headlines and then masturbated in front of her.
DI Mark Jenkins, of Dorset police’s major crime investigation team, said he believed Saadi had gone to Bournemouth to kill but had targeted Gray and Miles because they were isolated and he could surprise them. “He saw an opportunity and took it,” Jenkins said.
Crimson Dynamo
28-03-2025, 02:57 PM
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Cherie
29-03-2025, 12:03 AM
An extremely disturbed person
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