This is the haunting moment a criminology student lurked behind Amie Gray and her friend just 20 minutes before allegedly creeping up and carrying out a 'horrifyingly savage' attack in Dorset.
The haunting moment a man lurked behind a personal trainer and her friend just 20 minutes before carrying out a 'horrifyingly savage' attack has been shown in court.
A man - said to be Saadi - was shown strolling past Mrs Gray and her friend Ms Miles, then 38, sat on the beach before walking on to the sand and then returning along the promenade towards them. She was pronounced dead at the scene while Ms Miles suffered 20 injuries but survived the attack on the evening of May 24 after screaming 'Please stop, I've got children'.
The court heard that Saadi initially booked into a Travelodge hotel in Bournemouth on May 21 before moving to the nearby Silver How hotel on May 23. After leaving them both to bleed to death, he fled the scene and returned to the Silver How hotel in the city centre. The student, from south London, used the internet to search for 'deliberately offensive-looking weapons' and researched 'busiest beaches' before settling on a location in Bournemouth.
The pathologist also said that Mrs Gray suffered cuts which might have been defensive injuries as she held up her arms to defend herself. In March, Saadi is said to have researched 'why is it harder for a killer to be caught if he does it in another town' and 'which is the deadliest knife'. The following month, he allegedly carried out online searches for the 'busiest beaches' and then the following day looked at 'whether Bournemouth beach was open at night' and if sand or pebbles were easiest to run on.
'This defendant seems to have wanted to know what it would be like to take life - perhaps he wanted to know what it would be like to make women feel afraid, perhaps he thought it would make him feel powerful, make him interesting to others. 'He left them on the sand to bleed to death whilst he moved away and tried to disappear back into the shadows, away from the glare of the streetlights or the moonlight and back into anonymity.Ms Jones said that during his university lectures, Saadi would ask questions not related to the subject of the talk.
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