Nasen Saadi, 20, from Croydon in south London, is accused of murdering Amie Gray, 34, and seriously injuring a friend of hers in a 'savage and random' attack.
Nasen Saadi, 20, from Croydon in south London , denies murdering Amie Gray, 34A criminology student researched methods of murder before 'butchering' a personal trainer at random on a beach because he wanted to know how it felt to take a life, a court has been told.
Saadi, a student at Greenwich University in London, had taken such an 'interest' in true crime his lecturer had once asked him 'You’re not planning a murder are you?' when he 'plied' her with questions about forensics and how different police forces operated. Amie Gray died after being stabbed on Durley Chine Beach, Bournemouth, at about 11.45pm on May 24 this year - a man has now gone on trial charged with murdering her
Amie’s wife Sian attended today's proceedings at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire and watched from the public gallery. 'Perhaps he just couldn't bear to see people engaged in a happy normal social interaction and he decided to lash out, to hurt, to butcher.' Dorset Police issued this family picture of Amie Gray, 34, from Poole, who was killed on Durley Chine Beach, West Undercliff Promenade in Bournemouth, on May 24 this yearRead More Man, 20, accused of stabbing woman to death admits refusing to give police access to his phone These included raising queries about self-defence justification for murder, DNA analysis and other forensic evidence, the prosecutor told the court.
She added: 'In March he researched,"why is it harder for a killer to be caught if he does it in another town", the merits of one weapon over another, swords or daggers over knives, or"which is the deadliest knife".' A court artist sketch from June 4 this year of Nasen Saadi who has been charged with murdering Amie Gray, which he denies
She told how Ms Miles described the incident to police while in hospital and said Ms Gray had attempted to escape their attacker who then returned to stab her.
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