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[Music] website in early June 2020 the city of London was in the middle of its first
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lockdown issued in response to the Corona virus pandemic for almost 3 months UK residents had been ordered to
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stay at home to prevent spreading the virus dubbed covid-19 when the weather was good people would
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catch up with their friends and family Outdoors where there was less risk of spreading the virus in the fresh air but
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during the first week of June temperatures were cool prompting members of the public to want to socialize
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indoors instead the UK government reminded its citizens to remain cautious and continue
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meeting outside as much as possible bber Henry was a respected social worker who took the community's
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health and safety seriously so as her 46th birthday approached on Friday June 5 she decided to celebrate with a sunset
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picnic in a local park instead of a party at home restrictions on movement meant that
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only loved ones who lived within walking distance could attend and it would be a
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fairly small gathering undeterred BBA sent text messages to friends with an invitation to
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attend please bring a blanket lights snacks and a drink of your choice let's have a catch up play some sophisticated
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music watch the sunset and take it from there included with the text was a Google Maps screenshot of the party's
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destination a 250 acre park with Open Fields and small Woods called fryent Country Park it was located near
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Bieber's home of Wembley in Northwest London one person who was able to attend the
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celebration was Bieber's younger half-sister 27-year-old Nicole smallman Nicole who was a freelance
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photographer and artist lived in the neighboring town of Harrow despite their 20-year age
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difference the sisters were close and Nicole helped Bieber prepare for the picnic that evening the two went to a
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supermarket to purchase snacks then headed to Frant Country Park in Bieber's purple a
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video footage from London's expansive CCTV Network captured the two walking into the park side by side at 7:39 p.m.
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chatting together and smiling as They Carried their supplies the sisters selected a spot at
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the top of a hill scattering cushions and blankets around they had also brought some fairy
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lights and glow sticks to add a party atmosphere and provide light after the sun went down
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as Bieber's friends started to arrive the sisters waved the lights in the air to draw their
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attention the spot where they were seated afforded a scenic view of London and everyone snapped photographs of the
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pink and purple stre sky as the sunset and dusk fell there was singing dancing laughing
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and chatting as well as lots of eating and drinking when it became dark and the hour grew late Bieber's guests began to
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depart one by one the party goers said goodbye and headed home until Just Bieber and
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Nicole remained left alone to enjoy some time together the Two Sisters chatted danced
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and snapped photographs of themselves playing with The Fair lights throughout the night Nicole had
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been texting her boyfriend Adam via the messaging platform WhatsApp at 1:04 a.m. she sent him a
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message that read I'm dancing ing in a field accompanied by an emoji of a woman dancing she followed up with another
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text going home soon [Music] [Music] the following morning of Saturday June 6 will hermin smallman decided to text her
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daughters Bieber and Nicole to see how their picnic had gone will hel minina who went by the
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nickname Mina had been unable to attend Bieber's party as she lived in the coastal town of Ramsgate located almost
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80 Mi East from London in the county of Kent but Bieber and Nicole had made sure to
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send Mina photos from the celebration the previous night their family was close-nit as well as Bieber and Nicole
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Mina had a third daughter manique who lived in Holland Bieber and manique were Mina's
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children from her first marriage to Herman Henry a retired boxer Nicole was her only child from her
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second marriage to Christopher smallman Bieber and manique were close with their stepfather and everyone got
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along extremely well at 11:23 a.m. Mina sent her daughters a text message in response to
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some pictures they'd sent of the picnic love the photo good turnout she added that she hoped they'd
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had a lovely time and asked them to tell her all about it later on to her surprise and concern Mina didn't hear
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anything back from either of her daughters meanwhile Nicole's circle of friends were also growing
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concerned her boyfriend Adam had asked her to let him know when she arrived home safely but she never did Adam got
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in touch with Nicole's housemate Emma who said Nicole hadn't come home the lack of contact was strange
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Nicole loved animals and had a pet bearded dragon lizard whom she adored if she ever planned to be away from a
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longer period of time she would provide instructions for his care such as when to feed him or change his heat
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lamp but she hadn't done so this time Emma contacted some mutual friends to see if they had heard from Nicole
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none of them had after Adam repeatedly called Nicole without success he tried to trace her
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phone with a Tracker app to no avail hoping that Nicole had decided to stay at Bieber's house Adam traveled
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there to check no one was home by the time Saturday evening rolled around Adam and Nicole's friends were
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becoming increasingly upset when the women's mother Mina conferred with Adam and realized nobody
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had heard from Bieber or Nicole she knew something was wrong at 10:42 that night Mina called
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the police to report her her daughter's missing she told them what the situation
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was how long it had been since anyone had heard from Bieber and Nicole and provided a detailed description of where
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they were last seen But Mina got the impression that the police didn't share her concern they
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listened to her but didn't seem to share her sense of urgency and didn't indicate
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they would do anything to look for the women that night Mina and her husband Christopher couldn't sleep
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they continued trying to call and text Bieber and Nicole throughout the night typing out one message after
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another where are you getting quite worried here please let us know you are okay when Sunday morning rolled around
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the women's loved ones knew they would have to do something it had been more than 24 hours since Bieber and Nicole
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had been seen hoping that getting the word out on social media media might help Nicole's friends posted about
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Nicole's disappearance on Facebook they shared a photo of Nicole Beneath The Heading
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missing they also started phoning hospitals in the area to see if they had any patients matching the women's
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description as the police still hadn't sent out search parties Christopher smallman made the decision to drive to
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London to conduct his own search Nicole's boyfriend Adam had the same idea like Mina he had called the police the
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previous night to report his girlfriend missing but hadn't gotten anywhere the police had told them they
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would pay a visit to Bieber's flat so Adam and his mother had gone there to wait for them but the police never
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showed up and couldn't say when they would arrive accompanied by his parents Adam
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decided to go to Frant Country Park the place where the women were last known to
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have been once at the park Adam met up with a friend of the sisters named Nina resat
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who' attended the picnic on Friday night nah had also been concerned after being
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unable to reach the women and had cycled to the park by herself hoping to find something she'd spent about 30 minutes
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riding her bike around the enormous Park looking for her friends Nina took Adam and his parents
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to the top of the hill where Bieber's celebrations had been held the spot was a 5-minute walk from
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the Valley Drive entrance to the park it was surrounded by sprawling fields which
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were dotted with ponds and framed by denser areas of Woodland no sign of the picnic held two
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nights earlier remained all of the blankets cushions and fairy lights that had been strewn around the top of the
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hill were now gone the lack of items belonging to the sisters left the impression that they'd
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most likely packed up their things and left the park rather than something happening to them while they were still
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there regardless the group still decided to search their surroundings they split up and began
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scouring the area while Adam and his parents went in other directions Nina combed through the large field at the
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base of the Hill looking for anything out of place then something caught her eye a mingled pair of expensive designer
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prescription sunglasses lay on the ground glinting in the sun nearby was a long patch of flattened
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grass Nina's heart sank she immediately recognized the glasses as belonging to bber the state of them didn't suggest
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that Bieber had left the park safely and of her own accord uncertain what she should do now
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nah picked up her phone and called the police to report what she'd found they told her to hand the glasses
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into them so nah picked them up and hopped back on her bicycle to go to the nearest police station she continued to
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communicate with Adam via text he'd found nothing and when he messaged nah saying that he didn't know what to do
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she replied if you can bear it just keep looking Adam and his parents continued to search they called out the women's
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names hoping desperately for a reply while searching through scrub and vegetation Adam spotted a second pair of
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sunglasses but didn't touch them then Adam's father called out to him Adam rushed over to the location his
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father was searching nearby was a long trail of flattened grass and lying on the ground was a
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black handled knife with a 12 CM blade it was engraved with the brand name Taylor's eyewitness and looked
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[Music] clean despite the clean Blade the sight left Adam panicked pulling out his phone
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he dialed 999 the Emergency Services number and began explaining the situation to a dispatch while running
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along the stretch of flattened grass at the same time the trail LED towards a strip of
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wooded area with a row of trees poking out from beneath some undergrowth was a pair of
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shoes Adam ran around to a gap in the bushes diving into the undergrowth he was met with a horrifying
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sight about 1ot away from him lay the bodies of two women into wind together it was Bieber and
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Nicole both lay on their sides and they were positioned top to toe it looked as though they were locked
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in an Embrace with their limbs wrapped around one another Bieber's clothing had been pulled up over her head she had
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been stabbed eight times and her back was covered in abrasions from being dragged through the rough
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undergrowth Nicole's clothing had been yanked up above her abdomen and she too had abrasions and stab
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wounds But Nicole's injuries were far more extensive than her sisters she had been stabbed 28
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times her eyes were open and as Adam looked at his girlfriend's face he knew that she was
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dead he fell to the ground and let out several gutteral screams which was heard by the 999 dispatcher on the other end
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of his phone his parents also heard Adam's cries of distress and raced over towards him but
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he leapt up to stop them from having to see what he'd seen he handed his phone to his father
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and ordered his parents not to go into the bushes then collapsed once again after hearing Adam screams a man
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in another area of the park flagged down a police officer and directed her towards the noise
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she found Adam and his parents in a State of Shock the officer and a colleague entered the scene where the sister's
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bodies lay and confirmed that both were deceased officers from London's Metropolitan Police descended on the
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park with the ground stretching for 250 Acres they were facing an enormous crime
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scene to preserve the area where Bieber and Nicole's bodies lay and to prevent it being contaminated before forensic
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experts had a chance to examine it officers set up a series of cordons the innermost Cordon framed the
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Hedge R where the women's bodies were Mina smallman was at home waiting anxiously for news when her phone rang
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with a call from Adam she answered and Adam told her Mina Mina I need you to sit down we found
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them but they're gone Mina began to scream uncontrollably after her cries eventually subsided she remembered that
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her husband was driving to Frant Country Park she phoned Christopher and broke the news to him that their girls had
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died although they knew there was no longer any way to help a Bieber and Nicole some of their loved ones felt a
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desire to go to the park and be there for them in the only way they could a small group gathered at the bottom of
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the hill before the Cordon started and watched as fanic units arrived and officers went to and from the
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scene as detailed in the BBC documentary two daughters one of Baba's relatives was extremely distraught and begged the
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officers to let him see bber we can't do that one of the officers replied but we will look after
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them we will take care of them we will respect them we will promise [Music] that several officers were installed at
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the innermost Cordon to guard the sister's bodies until they could be removed for autopsy the following
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morning forensic tents were set up so that members of the public wouldn't see the bodies being taken from the
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park further examinations confirmed that whoever had killed the two women had dragged them by the feet into the bushes
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and deliberately positioned them in the way they were found perhaps as a way to further degrade
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them 46-year-old Bieber Henry had sustained six stub wounds to her chest one to her groin and one to her back the
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knife used in the attack had penetrated her lungs and heart with one chest wound
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measuring 15 cm deep this particular injury would have rendered Bieber unconscious within
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seconds she had no defensive wounds indicating that her killer had caught her by
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surprise her 27-year-old sister Nicole smallman would have been witness to her sister's attack unlike Bieber Nicole had
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numerous defensive injuries and her attack had been far more brutal likely because she had tried to fight back she
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had been stabbed 28 times and had injuries to her chest back thigh hip shoulder arms and
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hands investigators appealed for anybody who had been at Frant Country Park on the evening of Friday June 5 or early
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morning on Saturday June 6 to come forward they described the location where Bieber and Nicole had been and
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said that if anyone had seen or heard anything suspicious then it was especially important that they share
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what they knew quote you may have stumbled upon items of property but not really realized the significance of them
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if you did you may well have information that could assist us hugely no matter how insignificant it may
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[Music] seem several witnesses did come forward at 1:45 a.m. on the morning of Saturday
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June 6 a local woman named Elaine Williams had been at home watching television when she suddenly heard a
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disturbance from the direction of the park it sounded like a man shouting this was followed by two female
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voices shouting back then Elaine could only hear one woman's voice followed by a blood
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curdling scream to Elaine it sounded like a massive argument between two groups who
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didn't know each other later that morning a man named Martin Ridgeway headed to the park armed
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with several bin bags Martin was a member of Barnhill conservation group and would spend time
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picking up rubbish as part of that work as he made his way through the park looking for litter Martin came across a
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large pile of abandoned belongings there were several cushions two backpacks a large Blue hold all bag
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a white paper bag and some food packaging some of the items were covered in red marks which Martin assumed were
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ketchup stains as there were several empty sauce pots amongst the detroiters he threw the belongings away in some
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Park bins police were later able to track these items down the following morning of Sunday
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June 7 shortly before Adam Stone and his parents commenced their search of the park a woman named Linda Guerrero was
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walking her pet beagle Bambi through the grounds as she passed some bushes near the top of a hill Linda noticed two
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bodies entwined on the ground from the angle where she was standing Linda could see the bare back
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of one of the individuals she assumed they were a couple asleep in an Embrace sometimes unhoused people would
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sleep rough in Fry and Country Park so Linda wasn't particularly alarmed by the site she called out are you okay are you
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all right mate when there was no reply Linda continued on her way she later phoned Street link an
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organization that helps rough sleepers in London to report the incident it wasn't until she learned of
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Bieber Henry and Nicole soran's murders that she realized the significance of what she had
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[Music] seen Frant Country Park remained closed off to the public while police scoured
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its grounds for further Evidence a heavy downpour of rain across London on Saturday June 6th the day
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before the sisters were found led to fears that evidence had been washed away this rain was also the reason that the
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knife recovered at the crime scene appeared to be clean but when investigators picked it
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up they saw the underside was stained with blood testing revealed that the blood
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belonged to two different people Nicole smallman and an unidentified male thanks to lon's comprehensive
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network of CCTV cameras investigators had been able to trace the sister's actions in the leadup to the
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picnic they had been captured on camera shopping for picnic supplies at a co-op supermarket and one of the items they
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purchased was a bottle of tonic water the bottle was subsequently found in a bush near the women's bodies it had
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blood on it other bottles of Rosé and prco recovered at the scene all also had traces of blood on
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them a pair of blue latex gloves was also found one of the gloves was heavily stained with blood and damaged along the
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center as though slashed with a knife if the killer had been wearing the gloves it appeared that they had suffered an
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injury during the attack most likely when Nicole sman had fought back investigators were able to obtain a
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DNA profile from the blood on the bottle the glove and the discarded items that a
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member of the public had thrown away it was from the same unidentified male as the blood on the
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knife this individual's blood was also found on some vegetation near the women's bodies from one of Nicole's feet
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and on Bieber's trainers hand and leggings this Blood had likely been left when the killer dragged the women by
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their feet into the bushes there was no record of this person person in the National DNA
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database divers searched a pond in the park for possible evidence they recovered two smartphones which had
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belonged to Bieber and Nicole their killer had seemingly taken them from the scene and subsequently
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disposed of them a forensic examination would reveal that the last contact they had with friends or family was when
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Nicole texted her boyfriend Adam just after 1:00 a.m. on the Satur morning between 1:26 a.m. and 3:48 a.m.
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someone had repeatedly tried to gain access to Bieber Henry's phone its screen had been turned off and then on
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again at least 130 times thanks to a step counter on the phone police could see that whoever had
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been holding it had walked about 1.3 Mi during that time before switching the phone off and throwing it into the pond
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also found on the device were a number of photos that the sisters had taken throughout the night there were shots of
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them celebrating with their friends and then pictures of just the two of them after everyone else had gone home Bieber
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and Nicole had set up a timer on the phone's camera draped themselves with fairy lights and snapped more than a 100
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pictures as they laughed and danced in the dark the final photograph was taken at
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1:13 a.m. in this image the women appeared distracted instead of posing like they
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had in the other shots both were looking to their left as though something in that direction had drawn their
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attention detectives suspected that this was the moment their attacker had made himself
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known no one who knew Bieber and Nicole could think of anyone who would want to harm them bber was a highly respected
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and popular senior social worker at buckinghamshire Council who went above and beyond for the children she worked
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with bber had her own daughter whom she adored and was about to become a grandmother for the first time she made
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friends easily and was well-liked for her positive demeanor Nicole worked as a freelance
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photographer and shared her sister's upbeat out look on life her parents often joked that she should have been
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born born in the 1960s as she was a flower child at heart who cared deeply about social justice animals and the
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natural world for the past 6 years she had been in a relationship with her boyfriend Adam
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Stone the couple had lived together with Adam's parents for a while but Nicole had recently moved into a flat with a
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housemate nevertheless the pair remained as close as ever prior to Nicole leaving for
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Bieber's party Adam had made sure to give her money so she could catch a cab home Bieber and Nicole also had good
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relationships with their family members who were highly respected members of the
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community their mother Mina was a retired Arch Deacon in the Anglican Church Mina's father was Nigerian and
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she had been the first black woman to hold that title there was nothing in either of the
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women's lives that pointed to them being targeted by someone they knew this appeared to be confirmed by
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the Killer's DNA recovered at the scene the fact that it belonged to an unknown male suggested to police that the
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sisters had been victims of a random attack detectives went public with this information telling journalists that the
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women were murdered by a stranger and they needed the Public's help to find him the suspect they were looking for
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had likely suffered an injury during the attack which resulted in significant bleeding if anyone had seen somebody
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injured or acting suspiciously around the Frant Country Park area they were urged to report what they
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knew a few leads trickled in local residents said there had recently been a man hanging about the park following
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women he was aged in his 50s while pursuing these tip offs police arrested several different men
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but all of them were later released without charges some people including the sister's mother Mina felt that the
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brutal double murder wasn't receiving enough press attention to generate worthwhile
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leads although London's media had reported on the crime it wasn't receiving front page coverage or a
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national Spotlight users of the online Forum websleuths complained that they hadn't
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even heard about the murders until stumbling across a thread on the website the subdued nature of the
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coverage seemed at odds with the terrifying nature of the random attack then 2 weeks after the murders
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news broke that finally seemed to capture the press's [Music] attention in June of 2020 32-year-old
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police Constable Jamie Lewis had worked as an officer with the Metropolitan Police Service for just over 9 months
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prior to joining the Met as it was known Lewis had spent several years with the British transport police at 3:30 a.m. on
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the morning of Monday June 8 2020 Lewis arrived at Frant Country Park with a number of his
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colleagues the bodies of Bieber Henry and Nicole smallman had been found in the park roughly 15 hours earlier and
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officers were needed to guard the scene overnight until the bodies could be safely
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removed Jamie Lewis and several colleagues were assigned to The Cordon closest to the sister's bodies which
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weren't visible from where they were standing the officers were told the general location within the thicket
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where the women lay but weren't shown the bodies none were wearing full barrier fantic
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clothing they were not to search the Woodland area their job was simply to keep watch and to make sure no one
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entered the scene in order to preserve its Integrity each of the four officers was
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given a separate post to guard and told they must remain in place until colleagues arrived to relieve
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them under no circumstances were they to enter the bushes where the women's bodies
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lay at 3:50 a.m. about 20 minutes after arriving at the park Jim Lewis took out his phone and opened the messaging
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application WhatsApp he then typed a message to a group chat labeled the 18 me Izzy Dennis and Mt are living the
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wimbley dream he attached a photo of a forensic tent set up at the park then hit
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sand the group chat consisted of 41 different metropolitan police officers one soon sent a reply enjoying the
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sunrise Lewis responded unfortunately I'm sat next to two Dead Birds full of stab
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wounds another officer replied with a joke about Lewis's use of the slang turn Birds referring to women he asked who's
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been out stabbing pigeons Lewis responded by sending a photograph he'd taken of Bieber and
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Nicole's bodies despite being instructed not to breach the Cordon one of Lewis's colleagues from
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the Northeast London Police Station 4 5-year-old police Constable Dennis Jaffer was also using WhatsApp to
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message nine of his friends in another group chat he sent the group a Daily Mail article about the double homicide
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and informed them that he was at the scene now he would try to take some photos of the bodies to share with
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them over the next several hours Lewis and a Jaffa repeatedly left their posts to walk back and forth to chat with each
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other both breached The Cordon to take multi mple up close photographs of Bieber and
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Nicole Jeffer took four photographs while Lewis took two Lewis edited one photo in the social
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media app Snapchat to superimpose his face next to the bodies as though he' taken a selfie with
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them both men shared some of their photos with friends who didn't work with the police and told them that the two
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victims were a 14-year-old and a pregnant 20-year-old it is clear where they obtained this incorrect
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information Lewis referred to Bieber and Nicole as two stabbed up a dead women when Jeffer was asked by a friend if the
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crime scene was bad he replied not really I've seen worse Lewis also showed the photos on
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his phone to several different people in person two of these were police officers
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one was a female probationary officer she was dis usted by the photographs and told Lewis his actions
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were inappropriate at least one member of The A Team WhatsApp group who had been sent
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similar photos agreed and reported the matter to their hups at the Metropolitan Police on Friday June 19 the independent
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office for police conduct also known as the iopc was alerted 3 Days Later Lewis and Jaffer
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had their phone seized and were arrested for misconduct in public office during an examination of jaffer's
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phone it was found he'd also used the racist term to refer to South Asian men when Lewis received a text using that
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same term he made no objection the Met issued a press release about the arrests and the story quickly
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made headlines across the UK Bieber and Nicole's family had the news broken to them in person by a
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member of the io PC for Mina smallman and the sister's other loved ones this was the final
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straw they had felt from the start that Bieber and Nicole's case hadn't been taken
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seriously first there had been the delayed police response when they were reported missing Mina put this down to
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racism and classism both her daughters were of Nigerian Heritage and bber lived in a
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public housing flat in Wembley a predominantly black neighborhood as she told the BBC quote I knew
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instantly why they didn't care they didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and thought they knew
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who she was a black woman who lives on a council estate cases involving missing white
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women from middle class backgrounds seemed to be taken more seriously by the media as well Mina smallman would later
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note that the story about the officer's misconduct gener ated far more meteor attention than the women's disappearance
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and murder had but that didn't mean Mina thought the misconduct was Unworthy of attention the news that her daughter's
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dignity had been further degraded by two people charged with protecting them was
00:36:14
utterly devastating For The Grieving mother as she said in an interview with the guardian Mina hadn't even imagined
00:36:22
what her daughter's bodies looked like until she learned officers took photos of them she was already barely Holding
00:36:28
On by a thread and now she suddenly began having images flash through her mind of what the crime scene might have
00:36:35
looked like her pain somehow deepened Mina told the BBC quote this has taken our grief to
00:36:45
another place if we ever needed an example of how toxic it has become those police officers felt so safe so
00:36:54
untouchable that they felt they could take photographs of dead black girls and send them on it speaks volumes of the
00:37:01
ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police Bieber and Nicole's friends and family were horrified to think that
00:37:10
while they had been standing vigil at the park desperate for one final glimpse of their loved ones members of the
00:37:16
police were taking dehumanizing photographs of them and making crash jokes in the BBC documentary two
00:37:24
daughters one of B's cousins stated those two police officers did something worse than them being murdered we can't
00:37:33
change that but the dignity that they deserved in their death they took that from them and I will never forgive them
00:37:41
for that in the wake of the misconduct allegations the family and the Public's trust in the Metropolitan Police Service
00:37:53
took a severe hit despite this detectives Contin Ed working to solve the case the suspect's DNA hadn't matched
00:38:02
anyone in the National DNA database so detectives asked the National Crime agency to run it against their records
00:38:09
for a familial match this time there was a hit on Tuesday June 30 detectives discovered their suspect was related to
00:38:20
a man named Kamal Hussein who had previously received a caution the DNA indicated the suspect
00:38:28
was a close family member of kamal's most likely his child Kamal was from an Iraqi Kurdish
00:38:36
background and had four children with his ex-wife who resided on the south side of London in
00:38:42
Elum all of the children were School aged with the eldest being just 18 years old Kamal had often worried about his
00:38:51
first born who was a boy named Daniel Kamal would tell a neighbor that Daniel had got gotten mixed up with the
00:38:58
wrong crowd and he was concerned about the direction he was heading in Daniel had been in his early teens
00:39:06
when his parents split up it had been an unhappy household prior to the divorce characterized by yelling and
00:39:14
arguments both the police and paramedics had attended the property on more than one
00:39:20
occasion after his marriage ended Kamal relocated to North London settling into a residence in Kingsbury just a short
00:39:28
walk from Frant Country Park but his son Daniel's issues continued in October 2017 when Daniel
00:39:39
was 15 his teachers discovered that he had been accessing farri propaganda and looking for images of corpses on school
00:39:47
computers he was subsequently referred to prevent the UK government's counter extremism
00:39:54
program prevent was designed to stop vulnerable individuals being groomed by and drawn into terrorist organizations
00:40:02
such as the extremist islamist group Isis adolescents such as Daniel who were isolated and from immigrant backgrounds
00:40:12
were seen as especially susceptible to being radicalized Daniel Hussein was assigned
00:40:19
a mentor and was discharged from prant just over 6 months later in May 2018 supervisors Det determined they had
00:40:28
quote no outstanding concerns at that time with respect to Violent extremism or terrorism they continued to provide
00:40:38
support and conducted two further reviews of Daniel over the next year no additional need for concern was
00:40:45
identified and no further interventions were deemed necessary armed with the DNA evidence of
00:40:53
a familial Tire between Kamal Hussein and their suspect detectives raced to gain access to CCTV
00:41:01
footage from various cameras surrounding kamal's home it turned out that although Daniel
00:41:07
still lived with his mother in Elum he had been staying with his father at the time when bber Henry and Nicole smallman
00:41:14
were murdered within an hour and a half investigators had recovered some incredibly alarming
00:41:22
footage on the afternoon of Wednesday June 3 2 days before B his birthday picnic Daniel Hussein left his father's
00:41:30
address and headed to an Asda supermarket in candale North London security cameras captured the
00:41:38
slight dark-haired young man wearing a blue jacket and light jeans as he browsed the aisles of the store he
00:41:45
selected a Taylor's eye witness knife block which contained a set of five black-handled kitchen knives along with
00:41:52
some chewing gum cans of drink lemons and two candles due to the covid-19 pandemic hin was
00:42:00
wearing a face mask as he shopped when he took the items to the checkout to pay for them a Clark asked
00:42:08
to see some proof of age due to his purchase of the knives hin pulled out his passport and removed his face mask
00:42:16
so he could be identified hin returned to the Asda later that day to buy some extra strong
00:42:24
unibond power tape 2 days later on Friday June 5 husin left his father's home again and caught a bus to a
00:42:33
Morrison's Supermarket to collect some items he'd purchased the day prior on Amazon a balaclava and two folding
00:42:41
shovels hin also bought some alcohol at 8:40 p.m. CCTV cameras on lakes spur close captured hin entering
00:42:52
the northeast corner of Frant Country Park this wasn't far from the Valley Drive Entrance where Bieber Henry and
00:43:00
Nicole smallman had arrived 1 hour earlier as he strolled into the park hin was carrying a ruck sack and clearly
00:43:09
wearing blue latex gloves and a mask the next time he would appear on camera was almost 7 hours later at 3:08
00:43:19
a.m. when he was captured leaving the pitch black Park and heading in the direction of his father's
00:43:25
house hin had removed moved the pants he'd been wearing earlier and tied his jacket around his waist leaving his
00:43:31
lower legs exposed his right hand was tucked tightly into his jacket's waistband CCTV cameras tracked herin
00:43:42
back to his father's home which he reached at 4:07 a.m. after he knocked on the front door
00:43:49
his father opened it and Daniel Hussein disappeared inside at 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday July 1
00:44:00
officers armed with tasers descended on the home of Hussein's mother the double story brown brick
00:44:07
townhouse was one of several identical attached residences that sat side by side in a row on a quiet
00:44:14
culdesac it was mere hours after detectives had discovered the familial DNA link and the incriminating CCTV
00:44:23
footage they knocked on the door and after a few moments a light flicked on inside a skinny young man pulled back a
00:44:32
sheer curtain to look at the waiting officers then opened the door the police immediately ordered him
00:44:40
to raise his hands and informed him that he was under arrest Daniel Hussein lifted his hands
00:44:47
placed them on his head and silently stepped over the threshold officers handcuffed him and
00:44:54
transferred him to wassworth police station multiple injuries were visible on husain's right hand his middle finger
00:45:03
had a deep cut near the tip which had been stitched up and he also had several stitches a centimeter or so below his
00:45:10
first finger when asked about the cuts hin replied I was getting robbed records would show he had visited
00:45:20
a hospital the day after the murders and presented with the cuts to his right hand he initially told star he'd been
00:45:27
mugged the previous night but he later told the plastic surgeon who treated his injuries that the mugging had been 2 or
00:45:34
3 days earlier he didn't want to report the crime to the police hin then told detectives that he
00:45:42
had autism spectrum disorder and problems with his memory after that he refused to speak
00:45:50
further he answered every question the detectives asked him with the same refrain no comment
00:45:59
while husin was being interviewed officers searched his mother's home in husain's bedroom they found a
00:46:06
blue latex glove that matched the ones found in Frant Park in his wardrobe they found the balaclava and one of the
00:46:15
folding shovels that hassin had bought one day before the murders the other folding shovel was
00:46:22
never found nor were the jacket or the trousers Hussein had been wearing on the night in
00:46:29
question a book of spells was found in H's room along with some handdrawn pictures of what looked like Ault
00:46:37
symbols officers also found a piece of paper taken from a loose leaf folder that was covered in
00:46:44
handwriting it was headlined agreement below that was what appeared to be a kind of
00:46:51
contract it read for the mighty king lucifuge Ro AAL perform a minimum of six sacrifices
00:47:01
every 6 months for as long as I am free and physically capable sacrifice only women build a temple for you do
00:47:11
everything that I have promised for me win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot to receive fruitful
00:47:20
rewards in return for the future sacrifices I make to you the rewards could consist of wealth and
00:47:27
power to never be suspected of any Crimes by the police and also that the police will never know of any crimes
00:47:35
that I have done and that I will do at the bottom of the page were the words signed by followed by spaces for
00:47:45
two signatures one was for King lucifuge Rafal and was left blank the other was assigned to Daniel
00:47:55
who had signed his name in [Music] blood DNA tests would confirm that the blood on the contract belonged to Daniel
00:48:11
Hussein his fingerprints were also all over the document research would uncover that
00:48:18
lucifuge Rafal was a demon named in the 18th or 19th century book the grand grimoire this occult text contains
00:48:28
instructions for summoning demons and contains a quote hierarchy of Hell a list of different evil supernatural
00:48:36
beings and their roles according to the grand grimoire lucifuge rfal is supposedly in charge of
00:48:44
Hell's government and treasury investigators realized they had just uncovered a motive hin had
00:48:54
seemingly believed that if he murdered Vic as sacrificial offerings to a demon he believed in then he would win the
00:49:01
lottery gain power and escape police attention Hussein's misogynistic views led to him deciding to only target
00:49:12
women another document found in Hussein's possessions was a handwritten letter to another demon named Queen
00:49:20
bth in this note husin requested that the demon make a particular girl at his School fall in love with him and believe
00:49:29
that he was the only person for her he also wanted to be more attractive to women
00:49:37
romantically in exchange for these things Hussein would burn incense every two weeks make offerings of sweet drinks
00:49:44
and chocolate burn red candles and shed more blood based on these documents it was
00:49:53
clear that Daniel Hussein had intended to kill more women yet in the four weeks since Bieber and Nicole's murders there
00:50:01
had been no further slangs detectives believed this was due to the hand injuries husin sustained
00:50:08
during the crime he was unable to even make a fist with his right hand which prevented him from attacking more
00:50:16
victims it was also exactly what had brought him to their attention Daniel Hussein refused to
00:50:25
provide police with a blood sample but agreed to let them take a swab of his cheek after this swab was tested for DNA
00:50:33
it was confirmed that the blood of the unknown male at the scene was a billion times more likely to have come from hin
00:50:40
than from anyone else he appeared stunned upon learning they were able to receive these results
00:50:47
when he had refused to give them his blood on Thursday June 4 the day before Bieber's party hin had set up an online
00:50:57
betting account with logo.com which ran bets on the Megamillion Super Jackpot his bank records indicated he
00:51:06
had placed five Megamillions bets and one Megamillion Syndicate bet on Sunday June
00:51:13
7 this was the lottery named in husain's blood signed contract and its price total was 321
00:51:22
million next to the contract officers found three lottery tickets purchased on Tuesday June
00:51:29
9 husin had also purchased some online scratch card games in total he had spent £1
00:51:38
16288 trying to win the lottery in the days after the murders none of his attempts were
00:51:46
[Music] successful an examination of Hussein's electronic footprint showed that he was
00:51:55
fixated by the occult just a few hours prior to his arrest husin had gone online and logged into a
00:52:02
forum that was owned by an American man named EA keding keding was a misogynist a
00:52:10
Neo-Nazi and a kind of ult influencer unlike more mainstream Pagan religions such as wicker which emphasize
00:52:19
nature-based spirituality Co wedings occultism encouraged violence and harmful practices
00:52:26
The Forum he ran was part of a larger website where ceding sold merchandise shared spells and ult instruction and
00:52:34
offered one-on-one classes to followers in his writings coing encouraged people to commit ritualistic
00:52:42
murders instructed them on selecting victims and described how to kill someone with a
00:52:49
knife keding was affiliated with a self-described satanic Neo-Nazi group in the US called the order of nine angles
00:52:58
or o Anda While most people who identify as satanists are atheists who don't believe
00:53:05
in deities at all o Anda members do believe in the devil and other demonic entities between 2019 and
00:53:14
2021 seven young men sentenced for Neo-Nazi charges had been radicalized by the Ona's
00:53:23
content Daniel Hussein had joined Co for him 2 years earlier in March 2018 at the time he was being assessed
00:53:33
and supervised by the counterterrorism program prevent they were monitoring him for
00:53:39
signs of Islamic extremism but nothing was found after prent stopped checking up on
00:53:46
husin his obsession with demons only grew as did his misogyny in one post to coings Forum hin
00:53:56
descried described himself as a psychic vampire and said he felt a natural connection with some supernatural beings
00:54:02
and demons husin bragged that he was skilled in some areas of magic but needed to
00:54:09
practice more to keep up his abilities he said he particularly loved Satanism and Norse Magic and was a big
00:54:17
fan of EA ceding he had even learned his first spell which was a love spell from
00:54:24
ceding hin asked other posters for advice on creating demonic packs it appeared that Hussein's
00:54:33
contract with lucifuge racal had been directly inspired by ced's work ceding told his followers that this particular
00:54:42
demon was the one to enter into packs with but added they would also have to take real world action to ensure their
00:54:49
wishes would be fulfilled he provided detailed instructions for writing up such packs
00:54:55
including that the contract writer should request wealth and sign the document in their own
00:55:01
blood the packs should also be brought before the demon by candle light when hin bought the knife he used to kill
00:55:10
Bieber and Nicole he also purchased some candles kaeding's real name was Matthew
00:55:18
Lawrence and he was based in Utah he had a number of Prior convictions for drugs
00:55:23
and weapon possession charges at the time of H's arrest Co weding had a large social media following with
00:55:32
128,000 followers on Facebook and 87,000 YouTube subscribers after the link between Co
00:55:40
wedding and hin was made a public backlash would lead to these platforms removing ceding and his
00:55:46
content however as of the date of this episode's release e-commerce site Amazon still sells numerous books co-authored
00:55:55
by Co weding detectives were unable to uncover the extent of Daniel Hussein's radicalization as he refused to provide
00:56:07
the passwords to his laptop and iPad he had also thrown his phone away so it wouldn't fall into police
00:56:14
hands this prevented the police from accessing 80% of Hussein's data the UK's Crown prosecution service
00:56:23
or CPS took the matter to the US Court in an attempt to force Apple to hand over the
00:56:30
data however the American judge ruled against their application finding that the CPS hadn't offered evidence that
00:56:37
there was anything on Hussein's devices that would directly link him to the murders when Mina smallman found out her
00:56:46
daughter's di due to their killer believing in demons she actually felt a sense of
00:56:51
strength as a retired Anglican archdeacon she found solace in her faith telling the
00:56:59
BBC this is my territory I understand this I'm the light he's the darkness Daniel Hussein was charged with
00:57:11
two counts of murder and one count of possession of a knife with intent he entered a plea of not
00:57:18
guilty her was adamant that the person shown in the CCTV footage was not him and said his bank card used to purchase
00:57:27
the knives had been stolen he'd reported the matter to his bank almost 2 weeks after the
00:57:34
murders hassin also claimed that the Demonic pact found in his room didn't belong to him though he offered no
00:57:42
explanation for how his fingerprints and DNA came to be on it his trial began one year after the
00:57:50
murders on Wednesday June 9 2021 Bieber Henry and Nicole San's loved ones testified about how they'd found
00:57:59
the women's bodies during a search of the park while detectives and forensic experts detailed all of the evidence
00:58:06
tying Hussein to the double murder prosecutors theorized that husin had selected the two sisters to be his
00:58:14
first victims after having his attention drawn by the fairy lights they were carrying he had Lain in wait under cover
00:58:22
of Darkness at the park watching the two sisters as they danced together and laughed on the hilltop then he launched
00:58:29
his attack husin didn't testify in his own defense his legal team pointed to the
00:58:37
fact that two metropolitan police officers were found to have breached the crime scene to take photos of the
00:58:43
sister's bodies they argued that this may have compromised evidence but provided no explanation as to how
00:58:50
Hussein's blood could have otherwise been found at the scene Hussein's behavior in court Disturbed
00:58:58
those present he kept trying to make eye contact with Bieber and Nicole's mother
00:59:04
Mina smallman made ill-shaped loser signs at a paramedic witness who was testifying and turned his back on the
00:59:12
judge after a month-long trial the jury found Daniel Hussein guilty on all counts hin continued his disrespectful
00:59:23
behavior during his sentencing hearing appearing via video link due to an outbreak of covid-19 on his prison Wing
00:59:32
Hussein smiled and tossed his face mask into the air while waiting for court proceedings to
00:59:38
commence he also squatted on his chair throughout the hearing instead of sitting
00:59:44
upright when it came time for the judge to pass her sentence hin turned away from the camera undeterred the judge
00:59:53
spoke about the horror H's actions had inflicted on his victim's loved ones stating I am sure that you performed
01:00:01
these murders as part of that bargain which you thought would bring you wealth and
01:00:06
power well the wealth and power did not arrive and nor did it happen that the police never found out about your crimes
01:00:15
your DNA was all over the crime scene there was a vast amount of CCTV to track you and other evidence to prove it was
01:00:24
you you were tracked down and your plan failed bizarre though your pact with the
01:00:30
devil may appear to others this was your belief system your own commitment to the
01:00:36
murder of innocent women despite Daniel Husain citing his autism spectrum disorder as a mitigating
01:00:45
Factor the judge found that this had no bearing on his decision to commit his crimes she sentenced hin to life in
01:00:54
prison with a minimum of 30 5 years because he was under the age of 21 he could not be given a whole life
01:01:07
tariff Bieber and Nicole's mother Mina smallman spoke outside Court after hin sentencing and expressed her relief at
01:01:15
his capture quote if he hadn't been caught four other families may have been suffering what we
01:01:24
have although Al though Mina was grateful hassain had been stopped it didn't ease her Devastation at losing
01:01:31
her daughters she stated no one expects their children to die before them but to have two of your
01:01:39
three children murdered overnight is just incomprehensible attending court has been
01:01:47
heartbreaking the fear that both girls must have gone through in their final moments trying to save each other and
01:01:54
fighting for their lives that boy Daniel Hussein has not only shown that he has no respect for the
01:02:01
court but that he has no remorse for what he has done or the pain he has caused for those who loved Bieber and
01:02:12
Nicole Hussein's senseless motive added to their grief as a longtime family friend told the
01:02:20
BBC there was a moment of sheer disbelief to find out it was to do with the just trying to win the lottery it
01:02:29
was beyond tragic it's insulting if it wasn't bad enough already such a benale reason it was
01:02:39
insulting and offensive their grief was further compounded by the feeling that they had
01:02:47
been let down by the authorities as well although Mina smallman had nothing but praise for the detectives who solved her
01:02:54
daughter's case she was devastated by the initial delay by police in taking their disappearances seriously and the
01:03:02
actions of the Met officers who took and shared photos of their bodies the fact that so many officers
01:03:10
also received these images in group chats and failed to raise the alarm was just as
01:03:20
distressing at around 900 p.m. on Wednesday March 3 2021 1 a 33-year-old woman named Sarah everard left a
01:03:29
friend's house near Clapham common in South London and began walking to her home in Brixton Hill when she failed to
01:03:37
meet her boyfriend as planned the following day he reported her missing and a search was quickly
01:03:44
launched CCTV footage would reveal that Sarah had walked for about half an hour before being stopped by an off-duty met
01:03:52
police officer named Wayne cousins who was driving a rented car he flashed his police badge at Sarah
01:04:00
and falsely arrested her for breaching covid-19 guidelines by being out without permission an investigation would reveal
01:04:09
cousins had strangled Sarah then disposed of her remains in a pond on a property he
01:04:14
owned he had been plotting to kidnap and kill a woman for some time and Sarah had
01:04:20
been his randomly selected victim Sarah ever 's murder led to a widespread backlash across
01:04:29
London for many people her death was an example of another pandemic gripping the
01:04:35
United Kingdom male violence against women vigils were held in memory of Sarah and to protest the fact that she
01:04:44
had been killed while just going about her life as she had every right to do but the Met police broke up these
01:04:52
vigils and made a number of violent arrests in the process they said this was because attendees
01:04:59
were in breach of covid restrictions to many londoners the Met police's actions were
01:05:06
unacceptable one of their own had been responsible for murdering a young woman and it appeared that those protesting
01:05:13
his crime were experiencing harsher penalties than the perpetrator had in the past for prior
01:05:19
offenses news broke that Wayne cousins had a history of committing sexual assault he had been accused of indecent
01:05:27
exposure on three separate occasions each time police had either failed to investigate or take action against him
01:05:35
one woman said when she had tried to report cousins the police had laughed at her in 2018 cousins sexually assaulted a
01:05:44
drag queen at a pub five officers came under scrutiny for having shared grossly offensive
01:05:52
material with cousins prior to Sarah ard's murder Murder One officer involved in the initial search for Sarah shared
01:06:00
an offensive meme about her case on social media several Med officers opted to give cousins positive character
01:06:07
references during his sentencing for the murder and female officers came forward
01:06:12
to say they felt unable to report inappropriate conduct by male colleagues public trust in the
01:06:20
metropolitan police was at an all-time low for mina smallman at all felt sickeningly
01:06:27
familiar she felt a tremendous amount of grief for Sarah ard's family in an interview with the BBC Mina
01:06:37
stated I know what that family the parents will be going through and it is a hell you can't begin to understand what
01:06:47
it is to lose a child under those circumstances and then to have a further betrayal by the very organization who is
01:06:55
paid and we have an agreement with that they will protect us they will honor us and behave in a way that gives our
01:07:02
deceased dignity at the same time Mina couldn't help but noticed the Stark difference
01:07:10
between the amount of attention and public outrage Sarah's case had received in comparison to her
01:07:16
daughters where investigators took Sarah's disappearance seriously from the start Bieber and Nicole's loved ones had
01:07:23
to organize their own search parties this led to the extremely traumatic result of Nicole's boyfriend Adam being
01:07:30
the one to discover their bodies there was wall-to-wall coverage of Sarah ard's case in stark contrast to
01:07:38
the amount of attention Bieber and Nicole received women's magazine gratia reflected on the discrepancy between the
01:07:46
two cases in an article headlined where is the outrage for Nicole smallman and Bieber
01:07:53
Henry Mina told the B BC I think the notion of all people matter is absolutely right but it's not
01:08:02
true other people have more Kudos in this world than people of color that's what gives me purpose if
01:08:11
their lives make a change in the way women are viewed and black women in particular because in the pecking order
01:08:19
of things we are the lowest on the ladder the Metropolitan Police issued a statement in response to the public
01:08:30
anger against them it read in part the murder of Sarah everard is the most horrific of crimes but we recognize
01:08:40
this as part of a much bigger and troubling picture there have been other murders of women in public spaces
01:08:47
including the killings of Nicole smallman and Bieber Henry all of these bring into sharp
01:08:53
focus our urgent duty to do more to protect women and girls they reported that there would be
01:09:01
a review of met police culture and standards with an urgent review of all current investigations into allegations
01:09:08
of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse against Med officers they also published a new
01:09:15
action plan for tackling violence against girls and women Jamie Lewis and Dennis Jaffer the
01:09:23
two officers who had photographed bber and Nicole's bodies both pleaded guilty to misconduct in public
01:09:30
office Lewis was instantly dismissed from the force while Jaffer had already resigned by the time he faced
01:09:38
Court in December 2021 both men were sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail they would later unsuccessfully
01:09:48
appeal this sentence the Metropolitan police's then assistant commissioner Helen B said that
01:09:56
the men's colleagues were appalled by their actions and that the public couldn't have confidence in their
01:10:02
organization if the force didn't take their behavior seriously quote I'm sorry that our
01:10:09
officers behaved in such a hurtful disrespectful and criminal way their actions are
01:10:17
shameful three other officers who had received the images without challenging or reporting them all received written
01:10:23
warnings but were permitted to keep their jobs the independent office for police
01:10:30
conduct or iopc held a separate inquiry into how the police handled initial reports that Bieber Henry and Nicole
01:10:38
smallman were missing they found that the Metropolitan Police had failed to follow their missing person's policies
01:10:45
and made other errors when a friend of one of the sisters called the police asking for
01:10:51
help the call handler was dismissive and referred to one of the missing women as
01:10:56
a suspect information from a family member as to where the sisters might be was inaccurately recorded and led to an
01:11:04
inspector cancelling the report the iopc found that the Met police's response to the case was below
01:11:12
the standard that it should have been however they didn't find that this was due to any racial bias against the
01:11:20
women the Met offered an official apology to the women's families with then commissioner Dame creser dick
01:11:28
stating while we know that very sadly Nicole and Bieber had been murdered in the early hours of Saturday June 6 2020
01:11:37
before they were reported missing if we had responded better we may have saved their friends and family immeasurable
01:11:44
pain I am very sorry that the level of service we provided fell short Mina smallman responded quote
01:11:56
sorry is something you say when you comprehend the wrong you do and take full responsibility for it demonstrating
01:12:04
that by taking appropriate proportionate action which to our minds is not going to
01:12:09
happen the investigation was not handled appropriately the apology should have been done face to face and not nearly 10
01:12:18
months later Mina rejects the finding that there was no racial bias behind the Met's
01:12:30
mishandling Bieber Henry and Nicole Small's loved ones suffered irreparable damage as a result of their
01:12:37
murders Mina Small's sister the women's aunt had cancer and suffered a rapid decline after losing her
01:12:45
nieces after she died Mina said you can't exclude that a broken heart doesn't help a person who is
01:12:54
terminally ill the woman's sister manique went from being one of three siblings to an only
01:13:02
child Bieber's only daughter gave birth to her first child a boy after her mother's
01:13:09
murder those who knew Bieber said that her death was a loss to the entire Community she had been a fierce advocate
01:13:17
for the vulnerable members of society who came into her care as a social worker she was also a vivacious and fun
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person with a larger than life personality described as just fantastic to be around her father Herman Henry said he
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was in agony without her describing Bieber as a beautiful outgoing strong-minded and intelligent
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woman Mina smallman said that although Bieber was barely 5T tall she had the heart of a lion and a smile that would
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put the Blackpool illuminations to shame a reference to an annual Lights Festival
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in Blackpool England where Bieber was described as a beacon a friend of Nicole said she had a
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gentler energy quote when she walked into a room she was like a nightlight it was subtle protective
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warm easygoing and kind-hearted Nicole was a humanitarian who was passionate about the Arts and seen as a joy to be
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around in his victim impact statement in court Nicole's partner Adam spoke of his
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Devastation at losing her to put into words how I feel about losing Nicole is almost impossible
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especially in this unimaginable and horrifically violent way Nicole is my first thought my second and every
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thought thereafter and if I am lucky enough to fall asleep then I see her in my dreams this this is all I have left of
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her Nicole was the only child of her school teacher father Chris and had been particularly close to him Mina smallman
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told the guardian I remember watching him kissing her newborn head he was completely
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smitten for a man who is not sentimental it was a beautiful thing to see in the BBC documentary two daughters
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Mina concluded by saying she wanted people to remember how her daughters lived not how they died
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quote bber the amazing social worker who battled to make sure children were safe
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that families weren't broken up and Nikki she was just a ray of light everywhere and I know that will always
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be the way and I think that's what we need to do we need to find the sunshine in the rain
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