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website. In

1:12

early June 2020, the

1:14

City of London was in the middle

1:16

of its first lockdown issued in response

1:18

to the coronavirus pandemic. For

1:21

almost three months, UK residents had

1:23

been ordered to stay at home

1:25

to prevent spreading the virus dubbed

1:27

COVID-19. When

1:30

the weather was good, people would catch up

1:32

with their friends and family outdoors where there

1:34

was less risk of spreading the virus in

1:36

the fresh air. But

1:39

during the first week of June, temperatures

1:41

were cool, prompting members of the

1:43

public to want to socialise indoors

1:45

instead. The

1:47

UK government reminded its citizens to

1:50

remain cautious and continue meeting outside

1:52

as much as possible. Bieber

1:56

Henry was a respected social worker

1:58

who took the community's health and

2:00

safety seriously, so as her

2:02

46th birthday approached on Friday, June

2:04

5, she decided to celebrate with

2:07

a sunset picnic in a local

2:09

park instead of a party at

2:11

home. Restrictions

2:13

on movement meant that only loved ones

2:15

who lived within walking distance could attend

2:17

and it would be a fairly small

2:20

gathering. Undeterred,

2:22

Beba sent text messages to

2:24

friends with an invitation to

2:26

attend. Please

2:28

bring a blanket, lights, snacks and

2:30

a drink of your choice. Let's

2:33

have a catch up, play some sophisticated

2:35

music, watch the sunset and

2:37

take it from there. Included

2:41

with the text was a Google Maps

2:44

screenshot of the party's destination, a 250-acre

2:46

park with

2:48

open fields and small woods

2:50

called Friant Country Park. It

2:54

was located near Beba's home of Wembley

2:56

in North West London. One

3:00

person who was able to attend

3:02

the celebration was Beba's younger half-sister,

3:04

27-year-old Nicole Smallman.

3:08

Nicole, who was a freelance photographer and

3:10

artist, lived in the neighbouring town of

3:12

Harrow. Despite

3:14

their 20-year age difference, the sisters were

3:17

close and Nicole helped Beba prepare for

3:19

the picnic. That

3:21

evening, the two went to a

3:23

supermarket to purchase snacks, then headed

3:25

to Friant Country Park in Beba's

3:28

Purple Audi. Video

3:31

footage from London's expansive CCTV

3:33

network captured the two walking

3:35

into the park side by

3:37

side at 7.39pm, chatting

3:39

together and smiling as they carried

3:41

their supplies. The

3:44

sisters selected a spot at the top

3:46

of a hill, scattering cushions and blankets

3:48

around. They had

3:50

also brought some fairy lights and glow

3:53

sticks to add a party atmosphere and

3:55

provide light after the sun went down.

4:00

When the sun started to arrive, the sisters

4:02

waved the lights in the air to draw

4:04

their attention. The spot

4:06

where they were seated afforded a scenic

4:08

view of London, and everyone snapped photographs

4:10

of the pink and purple streaked sky

4:13

as the sunset and dusk fell. There

4:16

was singing, dancing, laughing and chatting, as

4:19

well as lots of eating and drinking.

4:23

When it became dark and the

4:25

hour grew late, Bieber's guests began

4:27

to depart. One

4:30

by one, the partygoers said goodbye

4:32

and headed home, until just Bieber

4:34

and Nicole remained. Left

4:37

alone to enjoy some time together,

4:39

the two sisters chatted, danced and

4:41

snapped photographs of themselves playing with

4:44

the fairy lights. Throughout

4:47

the night, Nicole had been texting

4:49

her boyfriend Adam via the messaging

4:52

platform WhatsApp. At

4:54

1.04 AM, she sent him a

4:56

message that read, I'm dancing in a

4:58

field, accompanied by an emoji

5:01

of a woman dancing. She

5:04

followed up with another text, Going

5:07

Home Soon. The

5:35

following morning of Saturday June 6,

5:38

Will Helmina-Smallman decided to text her

5:40

daughters, Bieber and Nicole, to see

5:42

how their picnic had gone. Will

5:46

Helmina, who went by the nickname Meena,

5:48

had been unable to attend Bieber's party

5:50

as she lived in the coastal town

5:53

of Ramsgate, located almost 80 miles east

5:55

from London in the county of Kent.

6:00

Cole had made sure to send the

6:02

main of photos from the celebration the

6:04

previous night. Their family

6:06

was close knit. As

6:08

well as be burnt. Nicole Mina

6:10

had a third daughter moneyed who

6:12

lived in Holland. Bieber

6:15

and Moneyed were mean his children

6:17

from her first marriage to home

6:19

and Henry a retired Boxer. Nicole.

6:22

Was her only child from her

6:24

second marriage to Christopher Smallman. Baber.

6:27

And money to a close with

6:29

a stepfather and everyone got along

6:31

extremely well. At

6:34

Eleven Twenty three I am mean as sent.

6:36

Do it as a text message in response

6:38

to some pitches date cent of the pigment.

6:42

Loved. The photo could turn out. She.

6:45

Added that she hoped to. They had a

6:47

lovely time and asked them to tell her

6:50

all about it later on. To.

6:52

Her surprise and concern mean I

6:54

didn't hear anything back from either

6:56

of her daughters. Meanwhile.

7:00

Nicole circle of friends were

7:02

also growing concerns. Her

7:05

boyfriend Adam had asked her to let

7:07

him know when she arrived home safely,

7:09

but scene of a did. Adam

7:11

got in touch with Nicole's housemate

7:14

ammo. He said Nicole hadn't come

7:16

home. The. Lack

7:18

of contact with strange. Nicole.

7:21

Loved animals and had a pet bearded

7:23

dragon, the lizard, whom she adored. If

7:26

she ever planned to be away for

7:28

a longer period of time, she would

7:30

provide instructions for his care such as

7:32

went to feed him or changes hate

7:35

them. But

7:37

she hadn't done so this time. Emma.

7:40

Contacted some mutual friends to save they

7:42

had heard from Nicole. None

7:45

of them had. After

7:48

Adam repeatedly called Nicole without success,

7:50

he tried to try cell phone

7:52

with a tracker, up to no

7:54

avail. Hoping that

7:57

Nicole had decided to stay had

7:59

babies house. Adam traveled there

8:01

to check. No. One

8:03

was home. By

8:05

the time Saturday evening rolled

8:07

around, Adam and Nicholas friends

8:09

were becoming increasingly upset. When.

8:15

The women's mother may not concerned

8:17

with Adam and realized nobody had

8:19

heard from Bay Burrow. Nicole see

8:21

knew something was wrong. At.

8:24

Ten Forty two. That not mean a

8:26

cold The police to report her daughter's

8:28

missing. She told them

8:31

what the situation was, how long it

8:33

had been since anyone had heard from

8:35

Baber and Nicole, and provided a detailed

8:37

description of where they were last seen.

8:40

But mean, I got the impression that

8:43

the police didn't share her concern. They.

8:46

Listened to her but didn't seem to

8:48

share her sense of urgency and didn't

8:50

indicate I would do anything to look

8:52

for the women. That

8:55

not mean her and her husband

8:57

Christopher couldn't sleep. They.

8:59

Continue trying to call and text

9:01

Baber and Nicole throughout the night.

9:04

Topping out one message after another.

9:07

Where. Are you. Getting quite

9:09

worried here. Please. Let us

9:11

know you are okay. When.

9:15

Sunday morning rolled around. The women's a

9:17

loved one's knew they would have to

9:19

do something. It had

9:21

been more than twenty four hours since

9:23

Baber and Nicole had bank same. Hoping

9:26

that getting the word out on

9:28

social media might help, Nicole's friends

9:30

posted about Nicole's disappearance on Facebook.

9:33

They. Shared a photo of Nicole

9:35

beneath the heading missing. They

9:38

also started finding hospitals in the area

9:40

to save with I had any patience

9:42

matching the women's description. As.

9:46

The police still hadn't sent out search

9:48

parties. Christopher small man made the decision

9:50

to drive to London to conduct his

9:53

own served. Knuckles. Boyfriend

9:55

Adam had the same idea. Like.

9:58

Me know he had. The police the

10:01

previous night to report his girlfriend

10:03

missing but hadn't gotten anywhere. The

10:06

police had told them they would pay a

10:08

visit to Babies flat so Adam and his

10:10

mother had gone there to wait for them.

10:13

But the police never showed up

10:15

and couldn't say when they would

10:17

arise. Accompanied

10:20

by his parents, Adam decided to

10:22

go to Fry and Country Park.

10:24

The. Place where the women were last known

10:27

to has been. One.

10:31

Set the park. Adam met up with

10:33

a friend of the sister's name to

10:36

Nina Erasmus Food: Attended the picnic on

10:38

Friday night. Nina. Had

10:40

also been concerned after being unable to

10:42

reach the women and had cycled to

10:44

the park by herself hoping to find

10:47

something. She'd spent about

10:49

thirty minutes riding her bike around

10:51

the enormous park looking so our

10:53

friends. Nino

10:55

to cut him and his parents to

10:57

the top of the hill where babies

10:59

celebrations had been held. The

11:02

spot was a five minute walk from

11:04

the Valley Drive entrance to the park.

11:07

It. Was surrounded by sprawling fields

11:09

which would dotted with ponds and

11:11

framed by denser areas of woodland.

11:15

No. Sign of the peak. Told to

11:17

not solely I remained. All.

11:19

Of the blankets, cushions and fairy lights that

11:22

had been strewn around the top of the

11:24

hill when they have gone. The.

11:27

Lack of items belonging to the sisters

11:29

left the impression that they most likely

11:31

packed up their things and to list

11:33

the park rather than something happening to

11:35

them while that was still there. Regardless,

11:39

The groups though decided to search

11:42

their surroundings. They

11:44

split up and began scouring the

11:46

area. While. Adam and

11:48

his parents went in other directions. Nina

11:51

combed through the large field at the

11:53

base of the hill looking for anything

11:55

out of place. then

11:58

something caught her eye A

12:01

mangled pair of expensive designer prescription

12:03

sunglasses lay on the ground glinting

12:06

in the sun. Nearby

12:09

was a long patch of flattened grass.

12:13

Mina's heart sank. She

12:16

immediately recognized the glasses as belonging

12:18

to Bieber. The

12:20

state of them didn't suggest that Bieber

12:22

had left the park safely and of

12:25

her own accord. Uncertain

12:28

what she should do now, Nina picked

12:30

up her phone and called the police

12:32

to report what she'd found. They

12:35

told her to hand the glasses in to

12:37

them, so Nina picked them up and hopped

12:40

back on her bicycle to go to the

12:42

nearest police station. She

12:44

continued to communicate with Adam via

12:46

text. He'd found

12:49

nothing, and when he messaged Nina saying that

12:51

he didn't know what to do, she

12:53

replied, if you can

12:56

bear it, just keep looking.

13:03

Adam and his parents continued to

13:06

search. They called out

13:08

the women's names, hoping desperately for

13:10

a reply while searching through scrub

13:12

and vegetation. Adam

13:15

spotted a second pair of sunglasses,

13:17

but didn't touch them. Then

13:21

Adam's father called out to him.

13:24

Adam rushed over to the location his

13:27

father was searching. Nearby

13:29

was a long trail of flattened

13:31

grass and lying on the ground

13:34

was a black-handled knife with a

13:36

12-centimeter blade. It

13:38

was engraved with the brand name

13:41

Taylor's Eyewitness and looked clean. At

13:46

the clean blade, the sight left

13:48

Adam panicked. Pulling

13:50

out his phone, he dialed 999,

13:52

the emergency services number, and began

13:54

explaining the situation to a dispatcher

13:56

while running along the stretch of

13:59

flames. flattened grass at the same

14:01

time. The

14:03

trail led towards a strip of wooded area

14:05

with a row of trees. Poking

14:09

out from beneath some undergrowth was a pair

14:11

of shoes. Adam

14:15

ran around to a gap in the bushes.

14:18

Diving into the undergrowth, he was

14:20

met with a horrifying sight. About

14:24

one foot away from him lay the

14:26

bodies of two women intertwined together. It

14:30

was Bieber and Nicole. Both

14:33

lay on their sides and they were positioned

14:35

top to toe. It

14:38

looked as though they were locked in an

14:41

embrace with their limbs wrapped around one another.

14:44

Bieber's clothing had been pulled up over her

14:46

head. She had been

14:48

stabbed eight times and her back was

14:50

covered in abrasions from being dragged through

14:53

the rough undergrowth. Nicole's

14:56

clothing had been yanked up above her

14:58

abdomen and she too had abrasions and

15:00

stabbed wounds. But

15:03

Nicole's injuries were far more extensive

15:05

than her sister's. She

15:07

had been stabbed 28 times. Her

15:11

eyes were open and as Adam looked

15:13

at his girlfriend's face, he

15:15

knew that she was dead. He

15:19

fell to the ground and let out

15:21

several guttural screams which was heard by

15:23

the 999 dispatcher on

15:25

the other end of his phone. His

15:28

parents also heard Adam's cries of distress

15:31

and raced over towards him but he

15:33

leapt up to stop them from having

15:35

to see what he'd seen. He

15:38

handed his phone to his father and ordered

15:40

his parents not to go into the bushes,

15:43

then collapsed once again. After

15:49

hearing Adam's screams, a man in

15:51

another area of the park flagged

15:53

down a police officer and directed

15:55

her towards the noise. She

15:58

found Adam and his parents a state

16:00

of shock. The

16:02

officer and a colleague entered the

16:05

scene where the sister's bodies lay

16:07

and confirmed that both were deceased.

16:11

Officers from London's Metropolitan Police

16:13

descended on the park. With

16:16

the ground stretching for 250 acres,

16:18

they were facing an enormous crime

16:20

scene. To preserve

16:23

the area where Bieber and Nicole's bodies

16:25

lay and to prevent it being contaminated

16:27

before forensic experts had a chance to

16:29

examine it, officers set up

16:32

a series of cordon's. The

16:34

innermost cordon framed the hedgerow where

16:37

the women's bodies were. Mina

16:41

Smallman was at home waiting anxiously for

16:43

news when her phone rang with a

16:45

call from Adam. She

16:48

answered and Adam told her, Mina,

16:52

Mina, I need you to sit

16:54

down. We found them, but

16:56

they're gone. Mina

17:00

began to scream uncontrollably. After

17:03

her cries eventually subsided, she remembered

17:06

that her husband was driving to

17:08

Friant Country Park. She

17:11

phoned Christopher and broke the news to

17:13

him that their girls had died. Mina's

17:15

mother and her husband were at home waiting anxiously for the incident. Although

17:17

they knew there was no longer any way

17:19

to help Bieber and Nicole, some of their

17:21

loved ones felt a desire to go to

17:23

the park and be there for them in

17:25

the only way they could. A small

17:29

group gathered at the bottom of the

17:31

hill before the cordon's started and watched

17:33

as forensic units arrived and officers went

17:36

to and from the scene. As

17:39

detailed in the BBC documentary Two

17:42

Daughters, one of Bieber's relatives

17:44

was extremely distraught and begged the

17:46

officers to let him see Bieber.

17:50

We can't do that, one of the

17:52

officers replied, but we will

17:54

look after them. We will take care

17:56

of them. We will respect them.

17:59

We will promise. That. Several.

18:05

Officers were installed at the innermost code

18:07

and to God this is this bodies

18:09

until they could be removed for autopsy

18:12

the following morning. Forensic.

18:14

Tests were set up so that members of

18:16

the public wouldn't say the bodies being taken

18:19

from the park. Further,

18:21

Examinations concerned that whoever killed the two

18:23

women had dragged to them by the

18:25

seat, into the bushes and deliberately position

18:28

to them in the way that was

18:30

sounds. Perhaps. As a way

18:32

to further degrade them. Forty.

18:35

Six year old baby Henry had sustained

18:37

six stab wounds to her chest ones

18:39

that are growing and one to that

18:41

back. The. Know us

18:43

used in the attack had penetrated

18:45

her lungs and heart with one

18:47

chest wound measuring fifteen centimeters deep.

18:51

This particular injury would have

18:53

rendered Bieber unconscious within seconds.

18:56

She. Had no defensive wounds, indicating

18:58

that her till I had caught

19:00

her by surprise. Her.

19:03

Twenty seven year old sister Nicole

19:05

Smallman would have been witness to

19:07

her sisters attack. Unlike

19:10

baseball, Nicole had numerous defensive

19:12

injuries and her attack had

19:14

been far more brutal. Likely.

19:16

Because she had tried to fight back.

19:19

See. Had been stabbed twenty eight

19:22

times and had injuries to

19:24

her chest, back die tip,

19:26

shoulder, arms and hands. Investigators

19:30

appealed for anybody who had been

19:32

at Friant Country Park on the

19:35

evening of Friday June. five for

19:37

early morning on Saturday June Six

19:39

to come forward. They

19:41

described the location where Be burned to

19:44

nicole had been and said that if

19:46

anyone had seen or heard anything suspicious

19:48

than it was especially important that they

19:51

share what they knew. Quote.

19:54

You. may have stumbled upon items of

19:56

property but not realized the significance

19:58

of them If you

20:00

did, you may well have information

20:02

that could assist us hugely, no

20:05

matter how insignificant it may

20:07

seem." Several

20:11

witnesses did come forward. At

20:14

1.45 am on the morning of

20:16

Saturday, June 6th, a local woman

20:18

named Elaine Williams had been at

20:20

home watching television when she suddenly

20:22

heard a disturbance from the direction

20:24

of the park. It

20:27

sounded like a man shouting. This

20:30

voice was followed by two female voices

20:32

shouting back. Then

20:34

Elaine could only hear one woman's

20:37

voice, followed by a blood-curdling scream.

20:40

To Elaine, it sounded like a massive

20:42

argument between two groups who didn't know

20:45

each other. Later

20:48

that morning, a man named Martin

20:50

Ridgway headed to the park armed

20:52

with several bin bags. Martin

20:55

was a member of Barnhill Conservation Group

20:57

and would spend time picking up rubbish

20:59

as part of that work. As

21:02

he made his way through the park

21:04

looking for litter, Martin came across a

21:06

large pile of abandoned belongings. There

21:10

were several cushions, two backpacks,

21:12

a large blue hold-all bag,

21:14

a white paper bag, and

21:16

some food packaging. Some

21:19

of the items were covered in red

21:21

marks, which Martin assumed were ketchup stains,

21:23

because there were several empty sauce pots

21:26

amongst the detritus. He

21:28

threw the belongings away in some park

21:30

bins. Police

21:32

were later able to track those items

21:34

down. The

21:37

following morning of Sunday, June 7, shortly

21:40

before Adam Stone and his parents

21:42

commenced their search of the park,

21:45

a woman named Linda Guerrero was

21:47

walking her pet Beagle Bambi through

21:49

the grounds. As

21:51

she passed some bushes near the top of a

21:54

hill, Linda noticed two bodies

21:56

entwined on the ground. where

22:00

she was standing, Linda could see the

22:02

bare back of one of the individuals.

22:05

She assumed they were a couple

22:07

asleep in an embrace. Sometimes

22:10

unhoused people would sleep rough in

22:13

Fryand Country Park, so Linda wasn't

22:15

particularly alarmed by the sight. She

22:19

called out, are you okay? Are

22:21

you alright, mate? When

22:24

there was no reply, Linda continued on

22:26

her way. She

22:29

later phoned Streetlink, an organisation that

22:31

helps rough sleepers in London to

22:33

report the incident. It

22:36

wasn't until she learned of Bieber

22:38

Henry and Nicole Smorman's murders that

22:40

she realised the significance of what

22:42

she had seen. Fryand

22:48

Country Park remained closed off to

22:50

the public while police scoured its

22:52

grounds for further evidence. A

22:55

heavy downpour of rain across London on

22:57

Saturday June 6, the day

22:59

before the sisters were found, led to

23:01

fears that evidence had been washed away.

23:05

This rain was also the reason that the

23:07

knife recovered at the crime scene appeared to

23:09

be clean. But

23:11

when investigators picked it up, they

23:13

saw the underside was stained with

23:15

blood. Testing

23:18

revealed that the blood belonged to two

23:20

different people, Nicole Smorman

23:22

and an unidentified male. Thanks

23:27

to London's comprehensive network of CCTV

23:29

cameras, investigators had been able to

23:31

trace the sisters' actions in the

23:33

lead-up to the picnic. They

23:36

had been captured on camera shopping for

23:39

picnic supplies at a co-op supermarket, and

23:41

one of the items they purchased was a

23:43

bottle of tonic water. The

23:46

bottle was subsequently found in a bush

23:48

near the women's bodies. It

23:51

had blood on it. Other

23:53

bottles of rose and Prosecco recovered at

23:56

the scene also had traces of blood

23:58

on them. A

24:01

pair of blue latex gloves was

24:03

also found. One

24:05

of the gloves was heavily stained with

24:07

blood and damaged along the center as

24:09

though slashed with a knife. If

24:12

the killer had been wearing the gloves,

24:15

it appeared that they had suffered an

24:17

injury during the attack, most likely when

24:19

Nicole Smallman had fought back. Investigators

24:23

were able to obtain a DNA profile from

24:25

the blood on the bottles, the glove, and

24:28

the discarded items that a member of the

24:30

public had thrown away. It

24:32

was from the same unidentified male as

24:34

the blood on the knife. This

24:38

individual's blood was also found on

24:40

some vegetation near the women's bodies,

24:43

from one of Nicole's feet and

24:45

on Bieber's trainers, hand, and leggings.

24:48

This blood had likely been left when the

24:51

killer dragged the women by their feet into

24:53

the bushes. There

24:55

was no record of this person in

24:58

the national DNA database. Divers

25:02

searched a pond in the park for possible

25:04

evidence. They recovered

25:06

two smartphones which had belonged to

25:08

Bieber and Nicole. Their

25:11

killer had seemingly taken them from the

25:13

scene and subsequently disposed of them. A

25:17

forensic examination would reveal that the

25:19

last contact they'd had with friends

25:21

or family was when Nicole texted

25:24

her boyfriend Adam just after 1am

25:26

on the Saturday morning. Between

25:30

1.26am and 3.48am, someone had

25:32

repeatedly tried to gain access

25:34

to Bieber Henry's phone. Its

25:37

screen had been turned off and then on again

25:39

at least 130 times. Thanks

25:44

to a step counter on the phone, police could

25:46

see that whoever had been holding it had walked

25:49

about 1.3 miles during

25:51

that time before switching the phone off

25:53

and throwing it into the pond. Also

25:57

found on the device were a number of

25:59

photos. that the sisters had taken throughout the

26:02

night. There were shots of

26:04

them celebrating with their friends and then pictures

26:06

of just the two of them after everyone

26:08

else had gone home. Bieber

26:11

and Nicole had set up a timer

26:13

on the phone's camera, draped themselves with

26:15

fairy lights, and snapped more than a

26:18

hundred pictures as they laughed and danced

26:20

in the dark. The

26:23

final photograph was taken at

26:25

1.13am. In

26:28

this image, the women appeared distracted.

26:31

Instead of posing like they had in the

26:33

other shot, both were looking

26:35

to their left as though something

26:37

in that direction had drawn their

26:39

attention. Detectives

26:41

suspected that this was the moment

26:44

their attacker had made himself known.

26:51

No one who knew Bieber and Nicole could think

26:53

of anyone who would want to harm them. Bieber

26:57

was a highly respected and popular

26:59

senior social worker at Buckinghamshire Council,

27:01

who went above and beyond for

27:03

the children she worked with. Bieber

27:06

had her own daughter, whom she adored, and

27:09

was about to become a grandmother for the

27:11

first time. She

27:13

made friends easily and was well-liked

27:15

for her positive demeanor. Nicole

27:18

worked as a freelance photographer and shared her

27:21

sister's upbeat outlook on life. Her

27:24

parents often joked that she should have

27:26

been born in the 1960s, as she

27:29

was a flower child at heart who

27:31

cared deeply about social justice, animals, and

27:33

the natural world.

27:36

For the past six years she had been in

27:38

a relationship with her boyfriend, Adam Stone. The

27:42

couple had lived together with Adam's parents for a

27:44

while, but Nicole had recently moved

27:47

into a flat with her housemate. Nevertheless,

27:50

the pair remained as close as ever. Prior

27:54

to Nicole leaving for Bieber's party, Adam had made sure

27:57

to give her money so she could catch a

28:00

cab home. Bieber

28:03

and Nicole also had good relationships

28:05

with their family members who were

28:07

highly respected members of the community.

28:10

Their mother, Mina, was a retired

28:12

archdeacon in the Anglican church. Mina's

28:16

father was Nigerian and she had been

28:18

the first black woman to hold that

28:20

title. There was

28:22

nothing in either of the women's lives that

28:25

pointed to them being targeted by someone they

28:27

knew. This appeared

28:29

to be confirmed by the killer's DNA

28:31

recovered at the scene. The

28:34

fact that it belonged to an unknown

28:36

male suggested to police that the sisters

28:38

had been victims of a random attack.

28:43

Detectives went public with this information

28:45

telling journalists that the women were

28:47

murdered by a stranger and they

28:49

needed the public's help to find

28:51

him. The suspect

28:53

they were looking for had likely suffered

28:55

an injury during the attack which resulted

28:58

in significant bleeding. If

29:00

anyone had seen somebody injured or

29:02

acting suspiciously around the Friant Country

29:05

Park area, they were urged to

29:07

report what they knew. A

29:11

few leads trickled in. Local

29:14

residents said there had recently been a

29:16

man hanging about the park following women.

29:19

He was aged in his 50s. While

29:23

pursuing these tip-offs, police arrested

29:25

several different men but

29:27

all of them were later released without

29:29

charges. Some

29:32

people, including the sister's mother,

29:34

Mina, felt that the brutal

29:36

double murder wasn't receiving enough

29:38

press attention to generate worthwhile

29:40

leads. Although

29:42

London's media had reported on the

29:45

crime, it wasn't receiving front-page coverage

29:47

or a national spotlight. Users

29:50

of the online forum, WebSlooths, complained that

29:53

they hadn't even heard about the murders

29:55

until stumbling across a thread on the

29:57

website. Do

30:00

The nature of the coverage seemed at

30:02

odds with the terrifying nature of the

30:05

random attacks. Than

30:07

two weeks after the murders

30:09

news broke that finally seemed

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June of 2020, 32-year-old

33:11

police constable Jamie Lewis had worked

33:13

as an officer with the Metropolitan

33:15

Police Service for just over nine

33:17

months. Prior to

33:19

joining the Met, as it was known,

33:21

Lewis had spent several years with the

33:23

British Transport Police. At

33:25

3.30am on the morning of Monday, June

33:28

8, 2020, Lewis arrived

33:30

at Friant Country Park with a number of

33:32

his colleagues. The

33:34

bodies of Bieber Henry and Nicole Smallman had

33:36

been found in the park roughly 15 hours

33:39

earlier, and officers were needed to guard

33:41

the scene overnight until the bodies could

33:44

be safely removed. Jamie

33:48

Lewis and several colleagues were assigned

33:50

to the cordon closest to the

33:52

sister's bodies, which weren't visible

33:54

from where they were standing. The

33:58

officers were told the general location. Within

34:00

the thicket where the women lay but

34:02

weren't shown the bodies None

34:05

were wearing full barrier forensic clothing

34:09

They were not to search the woodland area

34:12

Their job was simply to keep watch and

34:14

to make sure no one entered the scene

34:16

in order to preserve its integrity Each

34:19

of the four officers was given a

34:21

separate post to guard and told they

34:23

must remain in place until colleagues arrived

34:25

to relieve them Under

34:28

no circumstances were they to enter the

34:30

bushes where the women's bodies lay At

34:35

350 a.m. About 20 minutes

34:37

after arriving at the park Jamie

34:39

Lewis took out his phone and opened

34:42

the messaging application of whatsapp He

34:45

then typed a message to a group chat labeled

34:47

the 18 Me

34:50

Izzy Dennis and mad are living the

34:52

Wembley dream He

34:55

attached a photo of a forensic tent set

34:57

up at the park then hit sand The

35:00

group chat consisted of 41 different

35:03

metropolitan police officers One

35:06

soon sent a reply enjoying

35:08

the sunrise Lewis

35:11

responded Unfortunately, I'm

35:13

sat next to two dead birds full

35:15

of stab wounds Another

35:18

officer replied with a joke about

35:21

Lewis's use of the slang term

35:23

birds referring to women He

35:25

asked Who's been out

35:27

stabbing pigeons? Lewis

35:30

responded by sending a photograph he'd

35:32

taken of Bieber and Nicole's bodies

35:35

Despite being instructed not to breach

35:37

the cordon One

35:40

of Lewis's colleagues from the North

35:43

East London police station, 45-year-old police

35:45

constable Dennis Jaffa was also using

35:47

whatsapp to message nine of his

35:49

friends in another group chat He

35:52

sent the group a daily mail article about

35:54

the double homicide and informed them that he

35:56

was at the scene now take

36:00

some photos of the bodies to share with them.

36:04

Over the next several hours, Lewis and

36:06

Jaffa repeatedly left their posts to walk

36:08

back and forth to chat with each

36:10

other. Both

36:12

breached the cordon to take multiple

36:15

up-close photographs of Bieber and Nicole.

36:18

Jaffa took four photographs, while

36:20

Lewis took two. Lewis

36:23

edited one photo in the social

36:25

media app Snapchat to superimpose his face

36:28

next to the bodies, as though he'd

36:30

taken a selfie with them. Both

36:34

men shared some of their photos with

36:36

friends who didn't work with the police

36:38

and told them that the two victims

36:40

were a 14-year-old and a pregnant 20-year-old.

36:44

It is unclear where they obtained

36:46

this incorrect information. Lewis

36:49

referred to Bieber and Nicole as

36:51

two stabbed-up dead women. When

36:54

Jaffa was asked by a friend if the

36:56

crime scene was bad, he replied, ''Not

36:59

really. I've seen worse.'' Lewis

37:03

also showed the photos on his phone to

37:05

several different people in person. Two

37:08

of these were police officers. One

37:10

was a female probationary officer. She

37:14

was disgusted by the photographs and

37:16

told Lewis his actions were inappropriate.

37:19

At least one member of the

37:22

18-whatsapp group who had been sent

37:24

similar photos agreed and reported the

37:26

matter to their higher-ups at the

37:28

Metropolitan Police. On

37:30

Friday, June 19, the Independent

37:32

Office for Police Conduct, also known

37:35

as the IOPC, was alerted. Three

37:38

days later, Lewis and Jaffa had

37:41

their phones seized and were arrested

37:43

for misconduct in public office. During

37:49

an examination of Jaffa's phone, it was

37:51

found he'd also used a racist term

37:54

to refer to South Asian men. When

37:57

Lewis received a text using that same term,

37:59

he made no objection. The

38:02

Met issued a press release about the

38:05

arrests and the story quickly made headlines

38:07

across the UK. Bieber

38:09

and Nicole's family had the news broken

38:11

to them in person by a member

38:14

of the IOPC. For

38:17

Mina Smallman and the sisters other loved

38:19

ones, this was the final straw. They

38:22

had felt from the start that Bieber

38:25

and Nicole's case hadn't been taken seriously.

38:28

First, there had been the delayed police

38:30

response when they were reported missing. Mina

38:33

put this down to racism and

38:35

classism. Both her

38:37

daughters were of Nigerian heritage and

38:39

Bieber lived in a public housing

38:41

flat in Wembley, a predominantly black

38:44

neighbourhood. As she

38:46

told the BBC, quote, I

38:49

knew instantly why they didn't care. They

38:51

didn't care because they looked at my daughter's

38:53

address and thought they knew who she was,

38:55

a black woman who lives

38:57

in a council estate. Cases

39:01

involving missing white women from middle

39:03

class backgrounds seemed to be taken

39:05

more seriously by the media as

39:07

well. Mina Smallman

39:10

would later note that the story

39:12

about the officer's misconduct generated far

39:14

more media attention than the women's

39:17

disappearance and murder had. But that

39:20

didn't mean Mina thought the misconduct

39:22

was unworthy of attention. The

39:25

news that her daughter's dignity had been

39:27

further degraded by two people charged with

39:30

protecting them was utterly devastating for the

39:32

grieving mother. As

39:34

she said in an interview with The

39:36

Guardian, Mina hadn't even imagined what her

39:39

daughter's bodies looked like until she learnt

39:41

officers took photos of them. She

39:44

was already barely holding on by a

39:46

thread and now she suddenly began having

39:48

images flash through her mind of what

39:50

the crime scene might have looked like.

39:53

Her pain somehow deepened. Mina

39:57

told the BBC, quote, This

40:01

has taken our grief to another place.

40:04

If we ever needed an example of

40:06

how toxic it has become, those police

40:08

officers felt so safe, so untouchable, that

40:11

they felt they could take photographs of

40:13

dead black girls and send them on.

40:16

It speaks volumes of the ethos that

40:19

runs through the Metropolitan Police." Bieber

40:23

and Nicole's friends and family were horrified

40:25

to think that while they had been

40:27

standing vigil at the park, desperate for

40:29

one final glimpse of their loved ones,

40:32

members of the police were taking

40:34

dehumanizing photographs of them and making

40:36

crass jokes. In

40:39

the BBC documentary Two Daughters,

40:41

one of Bieber's cousins stated,

40:44

"...those two police officers did something

40:46

worse than them being murdered. We

40:49

can't change that, but the dignity

40:52

that they deserved in their death, they

40:54

took that from them, and I

40:56

will never forgive them for that." In

41:03

the wake of the misconduct allegations,

41:05

the family and the public's trust

41:07

in the Metropolitan Police Service took

41:09

a severe hit. Despite

41:12

this, detectives continued working to solve

41:15

the case. The

41:17

suspect's DNA hadn't matched anyone in

41:19

the national DNA database, so detectives

41:21

asked the National Crime Agency to

41:24

run it against their records for

41:26

a familial match. This

41:29

time, there was a hit. On

41:32

Tuesday, June 30, detectives discovered their

41:35

suspect was related to a man

41:37

named Kamal Hussein who had previously

41:39

received a caution. The

41:42

DNA indicated the suspect was a

41:44

close family member of Kamal's, most

41:47

likely his child. Kamal

41:50

was from an Iraqi Kurdish background and

41:53

had four children with his ex-wife who

41:55

resided on the south side of London

41:57

in Eltham. the

42:00

children were school-aged, with the oldest

42:02

being just 18 years old. Kamal

42:06

had often worried about his firstborn,

42:08

who was a boy named Daniel.

42:11

Kamal would tell a neighbour that Daniel had

42:13

gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd, and

42:16

he was concerned about the direction he was

42:18

heading in. Daniel

42:21

had been in his early teens when his

42:23

parents split up. It had

42:25

been an unhappy household prior to

42:27

the divorce, characterised by yelling and

42:29

arguments. Both the

42:32

police and paramedics had attended the property

42:34

on more than one occasion. After

42:38

his marriage ended, Kamal relocated to

42:40

north London, settling into a residence

42:42

in Kingsbury, just a short walk

42:45

from Friant Country Park. But

42:48

his son Daniel's issues continued.

42:52

In October 2017, when Daniel was 15, his teachers

42:55

discovered that he had been accessing far right propaganda

42:58

and looking for images of corpses on school

43:00

computers. He was subsequently referred to

43:07

PREVENT, the UK government's

43:09

counter-extremism programme. PREVENT

43:12

was designed to stop vulnerable individuals

43:15

being groomed by and drawn into

43:17

terrorist organisations, such as the extremist

43:20

Islamist group ISIS. Adolescents

43:24

such as Daniel, who were

43:26

isolated and from immigrant backgrounds,

43:28

were seen as especially susceptible

43:30

to being radicalised. Daniel

43:34

Hossain was assigned a mentor and

43:36

was discharged from PREVENT just over six

43:39

months later in May 2018. Supervisors determined

43:44

they had, quote, no

43:46

outstanding concerns at that time

43:48

with respect to violent extremism

43:51

or terrorism. They

43:53

continued to provide support and conducted

43:55

two further reviews of Daniel over

43:57

the next year. No

44:00

additional need for concern was

44:02

identified and no further interventions

44:04

were deemed necessary. Armed

44:09

with the DNA evidence of a

44:11

familial tie between Kamal Hussein and

44:13

their suspect, detectives

44:15

raced to gain access

44:17

to CCTV footage from

44:19

various cameras surrounding Kamal's

44:21

home. It turned out that although Daniel

44:23

still lived with his mother in Altam, he

44:26

had been staying with his father at

44:28

the time when Bieber Henry and Nicole

44:30

Smallman were murdered. Within

44:33

an hour and a half, investigators

44:36

had recovered some incredibly alarming footage.

44:40

On the afternoon of Wednesday, June

44:42

3, two days before Bieber's birthday

44:44

picnic, Daniel Hussein left his father's

44:47

address and headed to an ASDA

44:49

supermarket in Collendale, North London. He

44:53

cameras captured the slight dark-haired young man

44:55

wearing a blue jacket and light jeans

44:58

as he browsed the aisles of the

45:00

store. He selected

45:02

a tailor's eye-witness knife block which

45:05

contained a set of five black-handled

45:07

kitchen knives along with some chewing

45:09

gum, cans of drink, lemons and

45:12

two candles. Due

45:14

to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein was

45:17

wearing a face mask as he

45:19

shopped. When

45:21

he took the items to the checkout to

45:23

pay for them, a clerk asked to see

45:25

some proof of age due to his purchase

45:27

of the knives. Hussein

45:29

pulled out his passport and removed

45:31

his face mask so he could

45:33

be identified. Hussein

45:36

returned to the ASDA later

45:38

that day to buy some

45:41

extra-strong Uni-bond power tape. Two

45:44

days later, on Friday, June 5, Hussein

45:46

left his father's home again and

45:48

caught a bus to a Morrison

45:51

supermarket to collect some items he'd

45:53

purchased the day prior on Amazon,

45:55

a balaclava and two folding

45:57

shovels. also

46:00

bought some alcohol. At

46:04

8.40pm, CCTV cameras on Lakesburg

46:06

Close captured Hossain entering the

46:09

northeast corner of Friant Country

46:11

Park. This

46:13

wasn't far from the Valley Drive entrance

46:16

where Bieber Henry and Nicole Smallman had

46:18

arrived one hour earlier. As

46:21

he strolled into the park, Hossain

46:24

was carrying a rucksack and clearly

46:26

wearing blue latex gloves and a

46:28

mask. The

46:31

next time he would appear on camera was

46:33

almost seven hours later at 3.08am when he

46:36

was captured leaving the pitch black park and

46:38

heading in the direction of his father's house.

46:42

Hossain had removed the pants he'd been

46:44

wearing earlier and tied his jacket around

46:47

his waist, leaving his lower

46:49

legs exposed. His

46:51

right hand was tucked tightly into

46:53

his jacket's waistband. CCTV

46:57

cameras tracked Hossain back to his father's

46:59

home, which he reached at 4.07am. After

47:04

he knocked on the front door,

47:06

his father opened it and Daniel

47:08

Hossain disappeared inside. At

47:15

1am on Wednesday July 1, officers

47:17

armed with tasers descended on the

47:19

home of Hossain's mother. The

47:23

double-storey brown brick townhouse was one

47:25

of several identical attached residences that

47:27

sat side by side in a

47:29

row on a quiet cul-de-sac. It

47:33

was mere hours after detectives

47:35

had discovered the familiar DNA

47:37

link and the incriminating CCTV

47:39

footage. They

47:41

knocked on the door and after a

47:44

few moments, a light flicked on inside.

47:47

A skinny young man pulled back a sheer

47:49

curtain to look at the waiting officers, then

47:52

opened the door. The

47:55

police immediately ordered him to raise his hands

47:57

and informed him that he was under a

48:00

rest. Daniel

48:02

Hossain lifted his hands, placed them

48:04

on his head and silently stepped

48:06

over the threshold. Officers

48:09

handcuffed him and transferred him

48:11

to Wandsworth police station. Multiple

48:15

injuries were visible on Hossain's right

48:17

hand. His middle finger had

48:20

a deep cut near the tip which

48:22

had been stitched up and he also

48:24

had several stitches a centimeter or so

48:26

below his first finger. When

48:29

asked about the cuts Hossain replied,

48:32

I was getting robbed. Records

48:35

would show he had visited a hospital

48:37

the day after the murders and presented

48:39

with the cuts to his right hand.

48:42

He initially told staff he'd been

48:44

mugged the previous night but

48:46

he later told the plastic surgeon who treated

48:48

his injuries that the mugging had been two

48:51

or three days earlier. He

48:53

didn't want to report the crime to the police.

48:57

Hossain then told detectives that he

48:59

had autism spectrum disorder and problems

49:01

with his memory. After

49:04

that he refused to speak

49:06

further. He answered

49:08

every question the detectives asked him with

49:10

the same refrain, no

49:13

comment. While

49:16

Hossain was being interviewed officers

49:18

searched his mother's home. In

49:21

Hossain's bedroom they found a blue

49:24

latex glove that matched the ones

49:26

found in Friant Park. In

49:29

his wardrobe they found the balaclava and

49:31

one of the folding shovels that Hossain

49:33

had bought one day before the murders.

49:37

The other folding shovel was never

49:39

found nor were the

49:41

jacket or the trousers Hossain had been wearing

49:43

on the night in question. A

49:47

book of spells was found in Hossain's

49:49

room along with some hand-drawn pictures of

49:51

what looked like a cult symbols. Officers

49:55

also found a piece of paper taken from

49:57

a loose-leaf folder that was covered in hand

50:00

writing. It

50:02

was headlined agreement. Below

50:05

that was what appeared to be a kind

50:07

of contract. It read,

50:11

For the mighty king, Luciferuge,

50:13

rofocow, Perform

50:15

a minimum of six sacrifices every

50:17

six months for as long as

50:19

I am free and physically capable.

50:23

Sacrifice only women. Build

50:25

a temple for you. Do

50:28

everything that I have promised. For

50:31

me, win the

50:33

Mega Millions Super Jackpot. To

50:36

receive fruitful rewards in return for the

50:38

future sacrifices I make to you, the

50:41

rewards could consist of wealth and

50:43

power. To

50:45

never be suspected of any crimes by

50:47

the police and also that the police

50:49

will never know of any crimes that

50:51

I have done and that I will

50:54

do. At the

50:57

bottom of the page were the

50:59

words signed by followed by spaces

51:01

for two signatures. One

51:04

was for King Luciferuge rofocow

51:06

and was left blank. The

51:09

other was assigned to Daniel who

51:12

had signed his name in blood. Case

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deliver quality content. DNA

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tests would confirm that the blood

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on the contract belonged to Daniel

52:52

Hossain. His fingerprints

52:54

were also all over the document.

52:58

Research would uncover that Lucifuge

53:00

Rofocal was a demon named

53:02

in the 18th or 19th

53:04

century book, The Grand Grimoire.

53:08

This occult text contains instructions

53:10

for summoning demons and contains

53:13

a quote, hierarchy of hell,

53:15

a list of different evil

53:17

supernatural beings and their roles.

53:21

According to the Grand Grimoire,

53:23

Lucifuge Rofocal is supposedly in

53:25

charge of hell's government and

53:27

treasury. Investigators

53:31

realized they had just uncovered

53:33

a motive. Hossain

53:35

had seemingly believed that if he

53:37

murdered victims as sacrificial offerings to

53:40

a demon he believed in, then

53:42

he would win the lottery, gain

53:45

power and escape police attention. Hossain's

53:48

misogynistic views led to him

53:51

deciding to only target women.

53:55

Another document found in Hossain's possessions was

53:57

a handwritten letter to a new artist.

54:00

other demon named Queen Byleth.

54:03

In this note, Hossain requested that the

54:05

demon make a particular girl at his

54:08

school fall in love with him and

54:10

believe that he was the only person

54:12

for her. He

54:14

also wanted to be more

54:16

attractive to women romantically. In

54:20

exchange for these things, Hossain would

54:22

burn incense every two weeks, make

54:25

offerings of sweet drinks and chocolate,

54:27

burn red candles, and

54:30

shed more blood. Based

54:34

on these documents, it was clear that

54:36

Daniel Hossain had intended to kill more

54:38

women. Yet in the

54:40

four weeks since Bieber and Nicole's murders,

54:43

there had been no further slayings. Detectives

54:47

believed this was due to the hand

54:49

injuries Hossain sustained during the crime. He

54:53

was unable to even make a fist

54:55

with his right hand, which prevented him

54:57

from attacking more victims. It

55:00

was also exactly what had brought him

55:02

to their attention. Daniel

55:05

Hossain refused to provide police with a

55:07

blood sample but agreed to let them

55:09

take a swab of his cheek. After

55:13

this swab was tested for DNA, it

55:15

was confirmed that the blood of the

55:17

unknown male at the scene was a

55:19

billion times more likely to have come

55:22

from Hossain than from anyone else. He

55:25

appeared stunned upon learning they were able

55:27

to receive these results when he had

55:29

refused to give them his blood. On

55:34

Thursday, June 4, the day

55:36

before Bieber's party, Hossain had set

55:38

up an online betting account with

55:41

lottogo.com, which ran bets on the

55:43

Mega Million Super Jackpot. His

55:47

bank records indicated he had placed

55:49

five Mega Millions bets and one

55:51

Mega Million Syndicate Bet on Sunday,

55:53

June 7. This

55:56

was the lottery named in Hossain's blood

55:59

signed contract. and its price total was £321

56:01

million. Next

56:06

to the contract, officers found three

56:08

lottery tickets purchased on Tuesday, June

56:12

Hussein had also purchased some

56:14

online scratch card games. In

56:17

total, he had spent £162.88 trying to win the lottery in

56:19

the days after the murders. None

56:26

of his attempts were successful. An

56:33

examination of Hussein's electronic footprint showed

56:35

that he was fixated by the

56:38

occult. Just

56:40

a few hours prior to his arrest,

56:42

Hussein had gone online and logged into

56:44

a forum that was owned by an

56:46

American man named EA Cowetting.

56:50

Cowetting was a misogynist, a

56:52

neo-Nazi, and a kind of

56:54

occult influencer. Unlike

56:57

more mainstream pagan religions such

56:59

as Wicca which emphasised nature-based

57:02

spirituality, Cowetting's occultism

57:04

encouraged violence and harmful

57:06

practices. The

57:09

forum he ran was part

57:11

of a larger website where

57:13

Cowetting sold merchandise, shared spells

57:15

and occult instruction, and offered

57:17

one-on-one classes to followers. In

57:21

his writings, Cowetting encouraged people

57:23

to commit ritualistic murders, instructed

57:25

them on selecting victims, and

57:27

described how to kill someone

57:29

with a knife. Cowetting

57:32

was affiliated with the self-described

57:34

Satanic Neo-Nazi group in the

57:36

US called the Order of

57:39

Nine Angles, or ONA. While

57:43

most people who identify as Satanists

57:45

or atheists who don't believe in

57:47

deities at all, ONA members

57:49

do believe in the devil and

57:51

other demonic entities. Between

57:54

2019 and 2021, seven young men sentenced for neo-ninths. charges

58:00

had been radicalized by the

58:03

ONA's content. Daniel

58:06

Hussein had joined Co-Etting's forum two years

58:08

earlier in March 2018. At the time

58:10

he was being assessed

58:15

and supervised by the

58:17

counter-terrorism program PREVENT. They

58:20

were monitoring him for signs of

58:22

Islamic extremism but nothing was found.

58:26

After PREVENT stopped checking up on

58:28

Hussein, his obsession with demons only

58:30

grew as did his

58:32

misogyny. In

58:35

one post to Co-Etting's forum, Hussein

58:37

described himself as a psychic vampire

58:40

and said he felt a natural

58:42

connection with some supernatural beings and

58:44

demons. Hussein bragged

58:47

that he was skilled in some areas

58:49

of magic but needed to practice more

58:51

to keep up his abilities. He

58:54

said he particularly loved Satanism and

58:57

Norse magic and was a big fan

58:59

of EA Co-Etting. He

59:02

had even learned his first spell which

59:04

was a love spell from Co-Etting. Hussein

59:07

asked other posters for advice

59:09

on creating demonic packs. It

59:14

appeared that Hussein's contract with

59:16

Lucifuge Raffikal had been directly

59:18

inspired by Co-Etting's work. Co-Etting

59:22

told his followers that this particular demon

59:24

was the one to enter into packs

59:26

with but added they would also have

59:28

to take real world action to ensure

59:30

their wishes would be fulfilled. He

59:34

provided detailed instructions for writing up

59:36

such packs including that the contract

59:38

writer should request wealth and sign

59:41

the document in their own blood.

59:44

The packs should also be brought before

59:46

the demon by candlelight. When

59:49

Hussein bought the knife he used

59:51

to kill Bieber and Nicole he

59:53

also purchased some candles. Co-Etting's

59:58

real name was Matthew. Lawrence

1:00:00

and he was based in Utah. He

1:00:03

had a number of prior convictions for

1:00:05

drugs and weapon possession charges. At

1:00:08

the time of Hossain's arrest, Cowetting had

1:00:11

a large social media following with

1:00:13

128,000 followers on Facebook and 87,000 YouTube subscribers.

1:00:15

After the link between Cowetting

1:00:22

and Hossain was made, a public

1:00:24

backlash would lead to these platforms

1:00:26

removing Cowetting and his content. However,

1:00:29

as of the date of

1:00:32

this episode's release, e-commerce site

1:00:34

Amazon still sells numerous books

1:00:36

co-authored by Cowetting. Detectives

1:00:42

were unable to uncover the extent

1:00:45

of Daniel Hossain's radicalization as he

1:00:47

refused to provide the passwords to

1:00:49

his laptop and iPad. He

1:00:52

had also thrown his phone away so it

1:00:54

wouldn't fall into police hands. This

1:00:57

prevented the police from accessing 80% of

1:01:00

Hossain's data. The

1:01:03

UK's Crown Prosecution Service, or CPS,

1:01:05

took the matter to the US

1:01:07

courts in an attempt to force

1:01:09

Apple to hand over the data.

1:01:12

However, the American judge ruled against

1:01:14

their application, finding that the CPS

1:01:17

hadn't offered evidence that there was

1:01:19

anything on Hossain's devices that would

1:01:21

directly link him to the murders.

1:01:26

When Mina Smallman found out her daughters

1:01:28

died due to their killer believing in

1:01:30

demons, she actually felt a sense of

1:01:33

strength. As a

1:01:35

retired Anglican archdeacon, she found solace

1:01:37

in her faith, telling

1:01:39

the BBC, This

1:01:42

is my territory. I understand

1:01:44

this. I'm the

1:01:46

light. He's the darkness. Daniel

1:01:51

Hossain was charged with two counts of murder and one count of possession

1:01:53

of a knife with intent. He entered a plea of not guilty. Hossain

1:02:02

was adamant that the person shown

1:02:04

in the CCTV footage was not

1:02:06

him and said his bank card

1:02:08

used to purchase the knives had

1:02:10

been stolen. He'd

1:02:12

reported the matter to his bank almost

1:02:14

two weeks after the murders. Hossain

1:02:18

also claimed that the demonic pact

1:02:20

found in his room didn't belong

1:02:22

to him, though he offered

1:02:24

no explanation for how his fingerprints and

1:02:26

DNA came to be on it. His

1:02:31

trial began one year after the murders

1:02:33

on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Bieber

1:02:37

Henry and Nicole Smallman's loved ones

1:02:39

testified about how they'd found the

1:02:41

women's bodies during a search of

1:02:44

the park, while detectives and forensic

1:02:46

experts detailed all of the evidence

1:02:48

tying Hossain to the double murder.

1:02:51

Prosecutors theorized that Hossain had selected

1:02:54

the two sisters to be his

1:02:56

first victims after having his attention

1:02:58

drawn by the fairy lights they

1:03:00

were carrying. He

1:03:02

had lain in wait under cover of

1:03:04

darkness at the park, watching the two

1:03:06

sisters as they danced together and laughed

1:03:09

on the hilltop. Then

1:03:11

he launched his attack. Hossain

1:03:14

didn't testify in his own defense.

1:03:17

His legal team pointed to the fact

1:03:19

that two metropolitan police officers were found

1:03:22

to have breached the crime scene to

1:03:24

take photos of the sisters' bodies. They

1:03:27

argued that this may have

1:03:29

compromised evidence, but provided no

1:03:31

explanation as to how Hossain's

1:03:34

blood could have otherwise been

1:03:36

found at the scene. Hossain's

1:03:38

behavior in court disturbed those

1:03:40

present. He kept trying

1:03:43

to make eye contact with Bieber

1:03:45

and Nicole's mother, Mina Smallman, made

1:03:47

L-shaped loser signs at a paramedic

1:03:49

witness who was testifying and turned

1:03:51

his back on the judge. After

1:03:56

a month-long trial, the jury found

1:03:58

Daniel Hossain guilty. on

1:04:00

all counts. Hossain

1:04:04

continued his disrespectful behavior during

1:04:06

his sentencing hearing. Appearing

1:04:09

via video link due to an

1:04:11

outbreak of COVID-19 on his prison

1:04:13

wing, Hossain smiled and tossed his

1:04:15

face mask into the air while

1:04:18

waiting for court proceedings to commence.

1:04:21

He also squatted on his chair

1:04:23

throughout the hearing instead of sitting

1:04:25

upright. When

1:04:27

it came time for the judge to

1:04:29

pass her sentence, Hossain turned away from

1:04:31

the camera. Undeterred,

1:04:33

the judge spoke about the horror

1:04:36

Hossain's actions had inflicted on his

1:04:38

victim's loved ones, stating,

1:04:41

I am sure that you performed these murders

1:04:44

as part of that bargain which you thought

1:04:46

would bring you wealth and power. Well,

1:04:50

the wealth and power did not arrive,

1:04:52

and nor did it happen that the police

1:04:54

never found out about your crime. Your

1:04:58

DNA was all over the crime scene. There

1:05:00

was a vast amount of CCTV to track

1:05:02

you and other evidence to prove it

1:05:04

was you. You

1:05:07

were tracked down and your plan failed.

1:05:10

Bizarre though your pact with the devil

1:05:13

may appear to others, this

1:05:15

was your belief system, your

1:05:17

own commitment to the murder of innocent

1:05:19

women. At

1:05:23

Daniel Hossain citing his autism spectrum

1:05:25

disorder as a mitigating factor, the

1:05:27

judge found that this had no

1:05:29

bearing on his decision to commit

1:05:31

his crime. She

1:05:34

sentenced Hossain to life in prison with

1:05:36

a minimum of 35 years. Because

1:05:40

he was under the age of 21, he

1:05:42

could not be given a whole life tariff.

1:05:50

Bieber and Nicole's mother, Mina

1:05:52

Smallman spoke outside court after

1:05:54

Hossain's sentencing and expressed her

1:05:56

relief at his capture. If

1:06:00

he hadn't been caught, four other

1:06:02

families may have been suffering what we

1:06:05

have." Although

1:06:07

Mina was grateful her saying had

1:06:10

been stopped, it didn't ease her

1:06:12

devastation at losing her daughters. She

1:06:15

stated, "...no

1:06:17

one expects their children to die

1:06:19

before them, but to have two

1:06:22

of your three children murdered overnight

1:06:24

is just incomprehensible." Attending

1:06:27

court has been heartbreaking. The

1:06:30

fear that both girls must have gone

1:06:32

through in their final moments, trying to

1:06:34

save each other and fighting for their

1:06:36

lives. That

1:06:39

boy, Daniel Hossain, has not only shown

1:06:41

that he has no respect for the

1:06:43

court, but that he has no

1:06:45

remorse for what he has done or

1:06:48

the pain he has caused. For

1:06:52

those who loved Bieber and Nicole,

1:06:54

Hossain's senseless motive added to their

1:06:57

grief. As

1:06:59

a longtime family friend told the

1:07:01

BBC, There

1:07:03

was a moment of sheer disbelief. To

1:07:07

find out it was to do with the just

1:07:09

trying to win the lottery, it

1:07:11

was beyond tragic. It's

1:07:14

insulting. If it

1:07:16

wasn't bad enough already, such

1:07:18

a banal reason. It

1:07:21

was insulting and defensive.

1:07:25

Their grief was further compounded by the feeling

1:07:28

that they had been let down by the

1:07:30

authorities as well. Although

1:07:33

Mina Smallman had nothing but praise

1:07:35

for the detectives who solved her

1:07:37

daughter's case, she was devastated by

1:07:39

the initial delay by police in

1:07:41

taking their disappearances seriously, and

1:07:44

the actions of the Met officers who

1:07:46

took and shared photos of their bodies.

1:07:50

The fact that so many officers

1:07:52

also received these images in group

1:07:54

chats and failed to raise the

1:07:56

alarm was just as distressing. At

1:08:03

around 9pm on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, a 33-year-old woman

1:08:06

named Sarah Everard left a

1:08:11

friend's house near Clapham Common in south

1:08:14

London and began walking to her home

1:08:16

in Brixton Hill. When

1:08:19

she failed to meet her boyfriend as

1:08:21

planned the following day, he reported her

1:08:23

missing and a search was quickly launched.

1:08:27

CCTV footage would reveal that Sarah

1:08:30

had walked for about half an

1:08:32

hour before being stopped by an

1:08:34

off-duty Met police officer named Wayne

1:08:36

Cousins, who was driving a rented

1:08:38

car. He

1:08:40

flashed his police badge at Sarah

1:08:43

and falsely arrested her for breaching

1:08:45

COVID-19 guidelines by being out without

1:08:47

permission. An

1:08:49

investigation would reveal Cousins had strangled Sarah,

1:08:51

then disposed of her remains in a

1:08:54

pond on a property he owned. He

1:08:57

had been plotting to kidnap and kill a

1:09:00

woman for some time, and

1:09:02

Sarah had been his randomly selected

1:09:04

victim. Sarah

1:09:07

Everard's murder led to a

1:09:09

widespread backlash across London. For

1:09:13

many people, her death was an

1:09:15

example of another pandemic gripping the

1:09:17

United Kingdom, male violence

1:09:19

against women. Vigilance

1:09:22

were held in memory of Sarah and

1:09:24

to protest the fact that she had

1:09:26

been killed while just going about her

1:09:28

life as she had every right to

1:09:30

do. But

1:09:32

the Met police broke up these vigils and

1:09:35

made a number of violent arrests in the

1:09:37

process. They said

1:09:39

this was because attendees were in breach

1:09:41

of COVID restrictions. To

1:09:45

many Londoners, the Met police's

1:09:47

actions were unacceptable. One

1:09:49

of their own had been responsible for murdering

1:09:51

a young woman, and it appeared

1:09:54

that those protesting his crime were experiencing

1:09:56

harsher penalties than the perpetrator had in

1:09:58

the past for her. prior offences.

1:10:03

News broke that Wayne Cousins had a

1:10:05

history of committing sexual assault. He

1:10:07

had been accused of indecent exposure

1:10:09

on three separate occasions. Each

1:10:12

time police had either failed to

1:10:14

investigate or take action against him.

1:10:17

One woman said when she had tried to

1:10:20

report Cousins, the police had lasted her. In

1:10:24

2018, Cousins sexually assaulted a drag queen

1:10:26

at a pub. Five

1:10:30

officers came under scrutiny for

1:10:32

having shared grossly offensive material

1:10:34

with Cousins prior to Sarah

1:10:36

Everard's murder. One

1:10:39

officer involved in the initial search for

1:10:41

Sarah shared an offensive meme about her

1:10:43

case on social media. Several

1:10:47

med officers opted to give Cousins

1:10:49

positive character references during his sentencing

1:10:51

for the murder and female

1:10:53

officers came forward to say they

1:10:55

felt unable to report inappropriate conduct

1:10:57

by male colleagues. Public

1:11:01

trust in the Metropolitan Police was at

1:11:03

an all-time low. For

1:11:06

Mina Smallman, it all felt

1:11:08

sickeningly familiar. She

1:11:11

felt a tremendous amount of grief

1:11:13

for Sarah Everard's family. In

1:11:15

an interview with the BBC, Mina

1:11:18

stated, I

1:11:20

know what that family, the parents, will

1:11:22

be going through, and

1:11:24

it is a hell. You

1:11:27

can't begin to understand what it is

1:11:29

to lose a child under those circumstances,

1:11:32

and then to have a further betrayal

1:11:34

by the very organisation who is paid

1:11:36

and we have an agreement with that

1:11:39

they will protect us, they

1:11:41

will honour us and behave in

1:11:43

a way that gives our deceased dignity.

1:11:47

At the same time, Mina couldn't help

1:11:50

but notice the stark difference between the

1:11:52

amount of attention and public outrage Sarah's

1:11:54

case had received in comparison to her

1:11:57

daughter's. Sarah's

1:12:00

disappearance seriously from the start,

1:12:03

Bieber and Nicole's loved ones had to

1:12:05

organize their own search parties. This

1:12:08

led to the extremely traumatic result

1:12:10

of Nicole's boyfriend Adam being the

1:12:12

one to discover their bodies. There

1:12:16

was wall-to-wall coverage of Sarah Everard's

1:12:18

case, in stark contrast to the

1:12:20

amount of attention Bieber and Nicole

1:12:22

received. Women's

1:12:24

magazine Gratia reflected on the discrepancy

1:12:27

between the two cases in an

1:12:29

article headlined, Where is

1:12:31

the outrage for Nicole Smallman and Bieber

1:12:34

Henry? Mina

1:12:36

told the BBC, I

1:12:39

think the notion of all people

1:12:41

matter is absolutely right, but it's

1:12:43

not true. Other

1:12:45

people have more kudos in this world

1:12:48

than people of colour. That's

1:12:50

what gives me purpose. If

1:12:53

their lives make a change in the

1:12:55

way women are viewed, and black women

1:12:57

in particular. Because

1:12:59

in the pecking order of things, we

1:13:02

are the lowest on the ladder. The

1:13:09

Metropolitan Police issued a statement in response

1:13:11

to the public anger against them. It

1:13:15

read in part, The

1:13:17

murder of Sarah Everard is the most

1:13:20

horrific of crimes, but we recognize this

1:13:22

is part of a much bigger and

1:13:24

troubling picture. There have

1:13:26

been other murders of women in public

1:13:29

spaces, including the killings of Nicole Smallman

1:13:31

and Bieber Henry. All

1:13:34

of these bring into sharp focus our

1:13:36

urgent duty to do more to protect

1:13:38

women and girls. They

1:13:41

reported that there would be a

1:13:44

review of Met Police culture and

1:13:46

standards, with an urgent review of

1:13:48

all current investigations into allegations of

1:13:51

sexual misconduct and domestic abuse against

1:13:53

Met officers. They

1:13:56

also published a new action plan for

1:13:58

tackling violence against girls. girls and women.

1:14:03

Jamie Lewis and Dennis Jaffa, the

1:14:05

two officers who had photographed Bieber

1:14:07

and Nicole's bodies, both pleaded guilty

1:14:10

to misconduct in public office. Lewis

1:14:13

was instantly dismissed from the force,

1:14:15

while Jaffa had already resigned by

1:14:18

the time he faced court. In

1:14:21

December 2021, both

1:14:24

men were sentenced to two years and

1:14:26

nine months in jail. They

1:14:29

would later unsuccessfully appeal this

1:14:31

sentence. The

1:14:34

Metropolitan Police's then-assistant commissioner Helen

1:14:36

Ball said that the men's

1:14:38

colleagues were appalled by their

1:14:40

actions and that the public

1:14:42

couldn't have confidence in their

1:14:44

organization if the force didn't

1:14:46

take their behavior seriously. Quote,

1:14:50

I'm sorry that our officers behaved

1:14:52

in such a hurtful, disrespectful and

1:14:54

criminal way. Their

1:14:56

actions are shameful. Three

1:15:00

other officers who had received the

1:15:02

images without challenging or reporting them

1:15:04

all received written warnings but were

1:15:06

permitted to keep their jobs. The

1:15:11

Independent Office for Police Conduct, or

1:15:13

IOPC, held a separate inquiry into

1:15:15

how the police handled initial reports

1:15:18

that Bieber Henry and Nicole Smallman

1:15:20

were missing. They

1:15:22

found that the Metropolitan Police had

1:15:24

failed to follow their missing person's

1:15:26

policies and made other errors. When

1:15:30

a friend of one of the sisters

1:15:32

called the police asking for help, the

1:15:34

call handler was dismissive and referred to

1:15:36

one of the missing women as a

1:15:38

suspect. Information from

1:15:41

a family member as to where

1:15:43

the sisters might be was inaccurately

1:15:45

recorded and led to an inspector

1:15:47

cancelling the report. The

1:15:49

IOPC found that the Met Police's response

1:15:52

to the case was below the standard

1:15:54

that it should have been. However,

1:15:56

they didn't find that this was due

1:15:58

to any racial bias. against the women.

1:16:03

The Met offered an official

1:16:05

apology to the women's families,

1:16:07

with then-commissioner Dame Cressida Dick

1:16:09

stating, While

1:16:11

we know that very sadly Nicole

1:16:13

and Bieber had been murdered in

1:16:15

the early hours of Saturday June

1:16:17

6, 2020, before they were

1:16:20

reported missing, if we had

1:16:22

responded better we may have saved their

1:16:24

friends and family in measurable pain. I

1:16:28

am very sorry that the level of

1:16:30

service we provided fell short. Mina

1:16:34

Smallman responded, quote, Sorry

1:16:38

is something you say when you comprehend

1:16:40

the wrong you do and take full

1:16:42

responsibility for it. Demonstrating

1:16:45

that by taking appropriate proportionate action

1:16:47

which to our minds is not

1:16:50

going to happen. The

1:16:53

investigation was not handled appropriately.

1:16:56

The apology should have been done face

1:16:58

to face and not nearly 10 months

1:17:01

later. Mina

1:17:03

rejects the finding that there was

1:17:05

no racial bias behind the Met's

1:17:07

mishandling. Bieber

1:17:13

Henry and Nicole Smallman's loved ones

1:17:16

suffered irreparable damage as a result

1:17:18

of their murders. Mina

1:17:20

Smallman's sister, the women's aunt, had

1:17:23

cancer and suffered a rapid decline

1:17:25

after losing her nieces. After

1:17:29

she died, Mina said, You

1:17:32

can't exclude that a broken heart doesn't

1:17:34

help a person who is terminally ill.

1:17:38

The women's sister, Manique, went from being

1:17:40

one of three siblings to an only

1:17:43

child. Bieber's

1:17:46

only daughter gave birth to her

1:17:48

first child, a boy, after her

1:17:50

mother's murder. Those

1:17:53

who knew Bieber said that her death was

1:17:55

a loss to the entire community. She

1:17:58

had been a fierce advocate for the vulnerable. Members

1:18:00

of society if he came into her care

1:18:02

as a social worker. She

1:18:04

was also as as isis and

1:18:07

fun person with a larger than

1:18:09

last personality. described as just fantastic

1:18:11

debate around. Her

1:18:13

father them and Henry said he

1:18:15

was in agony without her. Describing.

1:18:18

Baber as. A

1:18:20

beautiful, out going, strong minded

1:18:23

and intelligent woman. Mean,

1:18:27

a small man said that although Baber

1:18:29

was barely five foot tall, she had

1:18:31

the heart of a lion and smile

1:18:33

that would put the Blackpool illuminations to

1:18:36

shame. A reference to an

1:18:38

annual Lots Festival in Blackpool, England.

1:18:42

When. Baber was described as a beacon.

1:18:44

A friend of Nicole said she had

1:18:46

a gentle hour energy. Quote.

1:18:49

When. She bought into a room see

1:18:51

was like a nightlight. It

1:18:54

was subtle protective. Womb.

1:18:58

Easy going and kind hearted. Nicole

1:19:00

was a humanitarian who was passionate

1:19:02

about the arts and seen as

1:19:05

a joy to be around. In.

1:19:07

His Victim Impact statement in

1:19:09

Cord Nicole's partner Adam spoke as

1:19:12

he's devastation at losing her.

1:19:15

To. Put into words how I

1:19:18

feel about losing the call is

1:19:20

almost impossible, especially in this unimaginable

1:19:22

and her recently violent. Nicole.

1:19:25

Is my first thought? My second

1:19:28

and every thought thereafter. And if

1:19:30

I'm lucky enough to fall asleep,

1:19:32

then I see her in my

1:19:35

dreams. This. Is all

1:19:37

I have a list of her. Nicole.

1:19:41

Was the only child of her

1:19:43

school teacher father, Chris, and had

1:19:45

been particularly close to him. Mean.

1:19:48

A small man told the guardian. I

1:19:51

remember watching him kissing her newborn

1:19:54

head. He was completely smitten.

1:19:57

For. a man who is not sentimental

1:20:00

It was a beautiful thing to see." In

1:20:05

the BBC documentary Two Daughters, Mina

1:20:07

concluded by saying she wanted people

1:20:10

to remember how her daughters lived,

1:20:12

not how they died. Quote,

1:20:16

Biba, the amazing social worker who

1:20:18

battled to make sure children were

1:20:21

safe, that families weren't broken up.

1:20:24

And Nikki, she was just a

1:20:26

ray of light everywhere, and I know that

1:20:28

will always be the way. And

1:20:31

I think that's what we need to do. We

1:20:34

need to find the sunshine in the

1:20:36

rain. Thank

1:20:54

you.