SISTERS’ LAST DANCE THEN KILLER STRUCK
‘Fairy lights lured park knife maniac’
TWO sisters took selfies of themselves dancing in the dark with fairy lights moments before they were slaughtered by a knifeman, police have revealed.
Detectives believe the lights created a “distinctive pattern” which may have attracted their killer.
Officers yesterday released photos showing Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, just before they were stabbed to death in a park.
The images were discovered on one of their mobile phones, which were recovered from a pond near where their bodies were found.
Det Chief Insp Simon Harding said: “We already knew that Nicole and Bibaa had been alone in the park from about 12.30am on Saturday.
“They were in good spirits and taking selfie pictures, listening to music and dancing with fairy lights until at least 1.13am.
“Those lights created a distinctive pattern, as the two images we are releasing show.” He added: “Someone knows something.”
The women were attacked in Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, in the early hours of June 6.
They had celebrated Bibaa’s 46th birthday with pals at a picnic there earlier that night.
Police said the pair were attacked after 1am by a male stranger. Days earlier a local woman warned on Snapchat that a man was “killing people” in the area.
In a statement the sisters’ family said “each day gets worse” without them. They said Bibaa was an “exceptional” senior social worker and “passionate advocate for safeguarding vulnerable children and families”.
Nicole “saw beauty in everything” and had a “very calm and positive attitude towards most things in life”, they added.
Police said their killer had received significant injuries during the attack and may be wearing a bandage. out there