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[Music] today's story is one that should strike a court in everyone particularly women
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but if you're a man watching this chances are there are women in your life that you deeply care for so this case
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should still scare the hell out of you we're going back to what was a difficult time for many June 2020 during the covid
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lockdown in London residents had been ordered to stay home for nearly 3 months at that point Eva Henry was a
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well-respected social worker and she was taking the lockdown seriously so as her
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46th birthday approached she opted for a small gathering at a park where her friends and family would be socially
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distanced from one another Biba sent this text invite please bring a blanket lights snacks and a drink of your choice
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let's have a catchup play some sophisticated music watch the sunset and take it from there one of the people who
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rsvpd was Biba's younger half sister Nicole smallman Nicole was a freelance photographer and artist and despite the
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20-year age gap between the sisters they were really close Nicole helped Biba set
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up her birthday picnic going to buy snacks and then heading to the park finding a secluded spot on the top of
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the hill where they scattered cushions and blankets to add Ambiance to the evening the sisters also brought some
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fairy string lights and glow sticks as the rest of their group arrived they watched as the sky turned to a mix of
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purple and pinks as the sun went down photos taken that night show it was an intimate evening of loved ones singing
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dancing laughing and just enjoying being reunited eventually guests began to disperse leaving just Biba and Nicole
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behind the sisters continued to enjoy their night and took photos of each other dancing around with their fairy
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lights throughout the night Nicole had been texting her boyfriend Adam via WhatsApp at 1:04 a.m. she sent him a
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message that read I'm dancing in a field with an emoji of a woman dancing she followed up with another text going home
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soon the following morning DEA and Nicole's mother Willamina smallman sent a text to both girls asking how the
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birthday picnic went but the girls never responded meanwhile Nicole's boyfriend asked Adam was starting to worry Nicole
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hadn't texted him that she had gotten home safely like normal and when Adam reached out to Nicole's flatmate she
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told him that Nicole never came home which was highly out of character Adam went to Biba's home hoping Nicole had
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decided to crash there but no one answered the door and by that evening he was starting to panic soon after Biba
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and Nicole's mom Willamina spoke with Adam and realizing that no one had heard from either of of her daughters she
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called the police the next morning with a full day without contact from either woman friends began spreading the word
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on social media asking for help in finding the sisters by this point the police hadn't yet conducted any searches
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for the women so loved ones of the girls took it upon themselves including Nicole's boyfriend Adam Adam headed to
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the park where the picnic had been held 2 days prior there he met up with a friend of the sisters who had been at
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the party her name was nah nah showed Adam to the spot in the 250 acre Park where the friends had celebrated on top
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of a hill all of the blankets and cushions and fairy lights were gone which gave the impression that the
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sisters had packed up their belongings that night and left the park but the friends decided to search the park
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regardless as they scoured the area nah found a pair of designer glasses mangled
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in the dirt and she had immediately recognized them as belonging to Biba the state they were in suggested that there
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may have been some type of struggle so nah called the police who asked her to come bring the glasses straight to them
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nah updated Adam who was still searching another area of the park along with his
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parents when he texted nah that he wasn't sure what to do she responded if you can bear it just keep
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looking shortly after Adam's father called out to him nearby was a long trail of flattened grass and lying on
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the ground was a large knife engraved with the brand name Taylor's eyewitness Adam dialed emergency services and began
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explaining the situation to a dispatcher while running along the stretch of flattened grass the trail LED towards a
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strip of wooded area with a row of trees and poking out from beneath them was a pair of shoes Adam ran around to a gap
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in the bushes where he was met with a horrifying sight about one foot from him lay the bodies of the two women
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intertwined together it was Biba and Nicole and it looked as though they were locked in an Embrace with their limbs
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wrapped around one another Biba's clothing had been pulled up over her head and she had been stabbed numerous
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times her back was covered in abrasions from being dragged through the rough undergrowth Nicole's clothing had been
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yanked up above her ABD in and she too had abrasions and stab wounds and her injuries were far more extensive than
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her sister's her eyes were open and as Adam looked at his girlfriend's face he knew that she was dead he fell to the
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ground and let out several guttural screams which was heard by the dispatcher on the other end officers
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from London's Metropolitan Police descended on the park with the grounds stretching for2 50 acres they were
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facing an enormous crime scene meanwhile Willamina smallman got the phone call that turned her life upside down I just
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remember screaming really just screaming you know there there's that please don't let this
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be 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 opposed them in the way they were found which is so disturbing perhaps as a way to further
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degrade them I don't know I mean we hear about victims being posed in sexual positions which in this case the killer
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did lift up their clothing but to think about the killer posing them in an Embrace really really chilling
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46-year-old Biba Henry had sustained six stab wounds to her chest one to her groin and one to her back she had no
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defensive wounds indicating that her killer had caught her by surprise her 27-year-old sister Nicole would have
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been witness to her sister's attack this absolutely kills me thinking about these
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cases where multiple people are killed and we know that one of them had to watch particularly a case like this
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where it's two sisters it it's hard hard to talk about unlike Biba Nicole had numerous defensive injuries and her
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attack had been far more brutal likely because she had tried to fight back she had been stabbed 28 times and had
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injuries to her chest back thighs hips shoulder arms and hands fryatt Country Park where this all occurred remained
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closed off to the public while police scoured the grounds for further Evidence they inspected the knife that was found
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by the women's bodies and testing revealed that the blood belonged to two different people Nicole and an
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unidentified male a pair of blue latex gloves was also found one of the gloves was heavily stained with blood and
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damaged along the center as though it was slashed with a knife investigators were able to obtain a DNA profile from
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the blood on various pieces of evidence found at the scene and it was all from the same unidentified male but despite
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having the suspected Killer's DNA there was no match in the National DNA database now divers searched a pond in
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the park for possible evidence and they recovered two smartphones which belonged
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to Biba and Nicole a forensic examination would revealed that the last contact they had had with friends or
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family was when Nicole texted her boyfriend Adam just after 1:00 a.m. on that Saturday morning between 1:26 a.m.
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and 4:00 a.m. someone had repeatedly tried to gain access to Biba's phone its screen had been turned off then on again
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at least 130 times thanks to a step counter on the phone police could see that whoever
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had been holding it had walked over a mile during that time before switching the phone off and throwing it into the
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pond also found on the device was a number of photos that the sisters had taken throughout the night Biba and
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Nicole had set up a self timer and draped themselves with fairy lights and snapped more than a hundred pictures
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together as they laughed and danced in the dark it's just so heartbreaking the final photograph was taken at 1:13 a.m.
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in this image the women appear distracted instead of posing like they had been in other shots both were
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looking to their left as though something in that direction had drawn their attention detectives suspected that this
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was the moment their attacker had made himself known literally gives me chills no one who knew Biba and Nicole could
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think of anyone who had want to harm them and there was nothing in either of the women's lives that pointed to them
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being targeted by someone that they knew and on top of that the suspected Killer's DNA that had been collected at
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the scene belonged to an unknown known male which further pointed to the theory that this had been a completely random
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attack detectives went to the public with this information telling journalists that they believed the women
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were murdered by a stranger and they needed the Public's help in finding him the suspect they were looking for had
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likely suffered an injury during the attack which would have resulted in significant bleeding they wanted anyone
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who had seen someone injured or acting suspiciously around this park to call them however some people who knew the
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sisters including their mother felt that the brutal double murder was not receiving enough press attention to
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really generate worthwhile leads although London's media had reported on the crime it wasn't receiving front page
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coverage or any national coverage and the subdued nature of the coverage really seemed at odds with the
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terrifying in theory that this was a random attack a brutal double murder but then 2 weeks after the murders news
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broke that finally seemed to capture the press's attention a fairly new police officer was caught sending photos of the
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Two Sisters bodies in a WhatsApp chat and sent messages such as quote I'm sat next to two Dead Birds full of stab
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wounds and and he sent a selfie of himself with the bodies and then there was yet another
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officer at the crime scene who against all protocol of course also took photos of the sister's bodies on his cell phone
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and sent them to a group chat eventually this got back to the higher-ups at the police department and
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both officers were actually arrested for misconduct in public office and from there the news got out to Nicole and
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Biba's family and ultimately the general public for the Sisters loved ones this pushed them over the edge they'd already
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felt that law enforcement hadn't taken the case seriously from the start seeing as friends and loved ones were the ones
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who had to do the first search for the women and ultimately find their bodies and overall family took note of how
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cases of missing white women seemed to generate much more media attention than the sisters disappearances and
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subsequent murders in the wake of the misconduct allegations the family and the Public's trust in the Metropolitan
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Police Service took a big hit but detectives continued working hard to solve the case behind the scenes the
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suspect's DNA hadn't matched anyone in the National DNA database so detectives asked the National Crime agency to run
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it against their records for a familial match this time we don't have anything like this in the states anyhow there was
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a hit in that database detectives discovered their suspect was related to a man named Kamal Hussein who had
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previously received a police caution the DNA indicated the suspect was a close family member of kamal's most likely his
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child which brings us to kamal's firstborn a son he had often worried about 18-year-old Daniel Kamal had told
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people in his life that that he was concerned that Daniel had gotten mixed up in the wrong crowd and really didn't
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feel great about the direction his 18-year-old son was heading in in October 2017 when Daniel was 15 years
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old his teachers discovered that he had been accessing farri propaganda and looking for images of corpses on school
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computers the school then referred him to prevent the UK's government's counter extremist program prevent was designed
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to stop vulnerable individuals from being groomed and drawn into terrorist organizations such as the extremist
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Islamic group Isis teenagers like Daniel who were fairly socially isolated and from immigrant backgrounds were seen as
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being especially susceptible to being radicalized Daniel was assigned a mentor and was discharged from prevent just
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over 6 months later supervisor ERS determined that they had no outstanding concerns at the time with respect to
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Violent extremism or terrorism they continued to provide support and did two more reviews of Daniel's case over the
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next year and again they said they had no reason for concern and deemed that there was no further intervention
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necessary anyhow armed with this DNA evidence detectives race to gain access to CCTV footage from various cameras Sur
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suring Kamal and Daniel's home and shortly thereafter investigators had recovered some incredibly alarming
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footage on the afternoon of Wednesday June 3rd 2 days before Biba's birthday picnic Daniel left his father's address
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and headed to a supermarket where security cameras captured him browsing the aisles of the store before selecting
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a Tailor's eyewitness knife block which contained a set of five black-handled kitchen knives along with some chewing
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gum couple cans of drinks lemons and candles later that day he returned to the same store to buy some extra strong
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unibond power tape and 2 Days Later the day of the sister's picnic he also collected two folding shovels and a ski
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mask that he had ordered online later that evening just before 9:00 p.m. cameras caught Daniel entering the park
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the same park that the sisters had their picnic and he was seen carrying a backpack and wearing blue latex gloves
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the next time he would appear on camera was almost 7 hours later at 3:00 a.m. when he was captured leaving the pitch
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black Park and he had removed the pants he was wearing earlier and tied his jacket around his waist leaving his
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lower legs exposed his right hand was tucked tightly into his jacket waistband cameras tracked Daniel back to his
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father's home which he reached around 4:00 a.m. after he knocked on the front door his father opened it and Daniel
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disappeared inside now after the discovery it was time for officers to bring Daniel in for questioning of
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course this is a lot of evidence take you're under arrest come out come out the address keep walking
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towards me keep walking towards me stay where you are stay where you are stay where you are hands on your head stay
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where you are face me hands on your head stay where you are you're under arrest all right anyhow multiple injuries were
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visible on his right hand his middle finger and a deep cut was near the tip of one of his fingers which had been
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stitched up when investigators asked him about these cuts that had recently been
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stitched up Daniel told them that he was getting robbed and that's when these Cuts happened and he didn't want to say
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anything further you have any injuries yeah yeah the wrists from the Cuffs y no oh how did that
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happen how did that happen sorry how did that [Music] happen while he was being interviewed
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officers searched his mother's home and in his bedroom there they found blue latex gloves that matched the ones found
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in the park and in his closet they found the ski mask and one of the folding shovels that he had bought one day
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before the murders and then there's this a book of spells was found in Daniel's room along with some handdrawn pictures
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of what looked like occult symbols officers also found a piece of paper taken from a loose folder that was
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covered in handwriting that was titled agreement it appeared to be some type of contract and it read perform a minimum
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of six sacrifices every 6 months for as long as I am free and physically capable
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sacrifice only women build a temple for you do everything that I have promised for me win the Mega Millions Super
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Jackpot to receive fruit fruitful rewards in return for the future sacrifices I make to you the rewards
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could consist of wealth and power to never be suspected of any Crimes by the police and also that the police will
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never know of any crimes that I have done and that I will do at the bottom of the page were the words signed by
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followed by two spaces for two signatures one was for this King Lucifer person which was left blank and the other was
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signed by Daniel and he signed his name in blood anyhow research would uncover that this Lucifer person who again I
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apologize I can't pronounce his name we'll put it on the screen he was a demon named in the 18th or 19th century
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book The Grand grimo and this occult text contains instructions for summoning the demon investigators realized that
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they had just uncovered a motive Daniel had seemingly believed that if he murdered women as a sacrificial offering
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to this demon that he believed in he would win the lottery gain power and Escape police attention investigators
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found another document in Daniel's possessions that was handwritten to yet another demon and in this note Daniel
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requested did that the demon make a particular girl at his school fall in love with him and believe that he was
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the only person for her he said he also wanted to be more attractive to women romantically in exchange for these
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things Daniel would burn incense every two weeks and make offerings of sweet drinks and chocolate burn red candles
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and shed more blood that letter is so fascinating to me because we're getting a glimpse into a
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seemingly well he's obviously not a regular teenage boy but this is like a regular teenage boy thought to feel
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insecure and wish that you could somehow be more attractive to women particularly
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one that you have feelings for So based on these documents it was clear that Daniel had intended to kill more women
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investigators believe that his injuries to his right hand that occurred during BBA and Nicole's
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murder had prevented more Bloodshed within the last few weeks and the evidence against Daniel only continued
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to pile up his DNA was a matched the male DNA founded the crime scene and the day before the murder it turns out that
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he set up an online betting account which ran bets on the Mega Millions Super Jackpot and his bank records
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showed that he had placed five Mega Million I bets and that was the lottery that was named in his blood signed
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contract the prize total was £321 million next to the contract officers found three lottery tickets purchased a
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few days after the murders when investigators looked at Daniel's phone and other electronics they could see
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clearly just how fixated he was on all this occult stuff hours prior to his arrest Daniel had gone online and logged
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into a forum that was owned by an American man named EA cotting cotting was a misogynist a Neo-Nazi and a kind
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of a cult influencer unlike more mainstream Pagan religions such as wiah which emphasize
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nature-based spirituality coding's occultism encouraged violence and harmful practices The Forum that he ran
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was part of a larger website where he sold merchandise shared spells and ult instructions and offered one onone
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classes to his followers he encouraged people to commit ritualistic murders and instructed them on selecting victims and
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described how to kill someone with a knife cotting was affiliated with a self-described satanic Neo-Nazi group in
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the US called the order of nine Angels or Ona Daniel Hussein had joined cotting Forum 2 years earlier in March 2018 and
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at the time remember he was being supervised by the counterterrorism program prevent but they were monitoring
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him for signs of Islamic extremism and nothing was found by prevent so they stopped checking up on him and his
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obsession with demons only grew over time it appeared that Daniel's contract with that Lucifer character had been
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directly inspired by coding's work see cotting had told his followers that that particular demon was the best one to
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enter in a pact with but he said they would also have to take realworld action to ensure their wishes would be
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fulfilled he provided detailed instructions for writing up packs including that the contract writer
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should request wealth and signed the document in their own blood the paack should also be brought before the demon
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by candlelight and when Daniel bought the knife that he used to kill Biba and Nicole he had also purchased some
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candles now coding's real name is Matthew Lawrence and he's based in Utah he has a number of Prior convictions for
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drugs and weapon possession charges and at the time of Daniel's arrest cotting had a large social social media
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following with over 100,000 followers on Facebook and nearly 100,000 YouTube subscribers after the link between
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cotting and Daniel was made public there was backlash that would lead to a lot of
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platforms such as Facebook and YouTube removing his content however as of this video as of me recording this right now
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Amazon still sells his books so that's absolutely insane but it's true now this is an interesting tidbit about the case
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detectives were not able to really uncover the full extent of Daniel Hussein's radicalism as he refused to
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provide the password to his laptop and iPad and he had also thrown his phone away so it would not fall into police
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hands this is interesting because a lot of people I think just assume if you're arrested and charged with a crime that
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police are able to get full access to all of your data but this case is an example of how that's not true so in an
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attempt to gain access to more of Daniel's data the UK's Crown prosecution service took the matter to the US courts
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in an attempt to force Apple to hand over that information however an American judge ruled against their
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application finding that there hadn't been evidence offered that there was anything that was going to be found on
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Daniel's devices that would directly link him to the murders so we don't know what's on there Daniel was charged with
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two counts of murder prosecutors theorized that he had selected the two sisters to be his first two victims
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after having his attention drawn to them by the fairy lights that they were dancing
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in they believed that he had waited in the dark and watched the sisters as they danced and laughed together on the
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hilltop before launching his attack his behavior in court was supposedly really disturbing and it sounds like he really
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actually taunted Biba and Nicole's family and did things like this looking at their mom I
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mean unreal the jury found Daniel guilty on all counts now a little less than a year
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after the murders of B Henry and Nicole smallman a 33-year-old woman named Sarah
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everard left a friend's house and started walking back to her South London home when she failed to meet her
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boyfriend as planned the following day he reported her missing and a search was very quickly launched CCTV footage would
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reveal that Sarah had been stopped by an off-duty metropolitan police officer who
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was driving a rented car he flashed his police badge at Sarah and falsely arrested her for breaching covid-19
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guidelines by being out without permission a short time later this off-duty police officer strangled Sarah
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and then disposed of her remains in a pond at a property that he owned it was later uncovered that he had been
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plotting to kidnap and kill a woman for some time and Sarah had been randomly selected at this point public Trust in
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the metropolitan police was truly at an all-time low and for Willamina smallman it all felt too sickeningly familiar she
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felt a tremendous sense of grief for Sarah Everett's family but at the same time she couldn't help but notice the
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Stark differences between the amount of attention and public outrage that Sarah's case had received in comparison
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to her daughter's murders investigators took Sarah's disappearance seriously from the start whereas Biba and Nicole's
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loved ones had to organize their own search parties which again led to the extremely traumatic result of Nicole's
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boyfriend Adam being the one to discover their bodies there was wall-to-wall coverage of Sarah ever's case chances
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are you remember it I certainly do which is in stark contrast to the amount of attention that Biba and Nicole's case
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received Mina told the BBC I think that the notion of all people matter is absolutely right but it's not true other
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people have more Kudos in this world than people of color that's what gives me purpose if their lives make a change
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in the way women are viewed and black women in particular because in the pecking order of things we are the
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lowest on the ladder now the two officers who had photographed Biba and Nicole's bodies both pleaded guilty to
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misconduct in public office one officer was in instantly dismissed from the police force while the other had already
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resigned by the time he was in court the men were sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in jail the metropolitan police
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reported that there would be a review of met police culture and standards and with an urgent review of all current
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investigations into allegation of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse against Metropolitan officers they also
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published a new action plan for tackling violence against girls and women this is pretty significant the
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independent office for police conduct held a separate inquiry into how police handled the initial reports that Biba
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Henry and Nicole smallman were missing and they found that the Metropolitan Police had failed to follow their
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missing person's policies and made other errors and that the Met police response
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to the case was quote below the standards that it should have been the Met offered an official apology to the
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women's families and the then commissioner stated while we know that very sadly Nicole and Biba had been
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murdered in the early hours of Saturday June 6 2020 before they were reported missing if we had responded better we
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may have saved their friends and family immeasurable pain I am very sorry that the level of service we provided fell
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short now in response to this report and the commissioner statement Biba and Nicole's mother Willamina smallman had
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this to say that report represents a time in our lives where we were desperate for our children to find them
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that we had to put our own search party together and the Met wants to offer us an
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apology are they mad bber Henry and Nicole smallman loved ones suffered irreparable damage as a result of their
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murders in the BBC documentary two daughters their mother Willamina said that she wanted her daughters to
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remembered by how they lived not how they died Lea the amazing social worker who battled to make sure children were
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safe but families weren't broken up man man and Nikki she was just a ray of Li everywhere and I know I know that will
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always be the way and I think that's what we need to do we need to find the sunshine in the
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rain now I just want to end with saying that this case really really shows the quite morbid reality that as women from
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the time we are little throughout the entirety of Our Lives we have to recognize that we may be looked at as
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prey by random strangers who fantasize about murdering women and while statistically women are far more likely
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to be killed by someone close to them that doesn't change the fact that if you're a woman chances are you probably
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don't feel safe walking around alone late at night in the dark and what's really depressing about this case in
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particular is Biba and Nicole were together they were celebrating Biba's birthday in what no doubt felt like an
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extra special celebration because of the pandemic that had kept everyone so isolated so it's easy to imagine that
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being together they not only were ecstatic but that they felt safe because they were together but they weren't safe
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there was a murderous man lurking in the darkness that was not something that was
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on their minds and it's sad that it would have to be as women even if this scenario is statistically unlikely you
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don't get the luxury of feeling safe even if you're with your sister in a park l late at night that's just the
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reality thank you for watching and please as always share your thoughts with me in the comment section until
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