SATANIST TEEN FREED TO MURDER

Park sisters stabbed to death after youth cleared over occult and far-Right claims

A SATANIST sixth-form student who murdered two sisters had been discharged from the Government’s antiradicalisation programme.

Danyal Hussein, 19, was yesterday convicted of stabbing Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry to death in a park after making a ‘pact’ with demonic forces.

It can now be disclosed that he was referred to the Prevent scheme in october 2017 over concerns he was vulnerable to radicalisation.

Teachers at Thomas Tallis School in Greenwich, south-east London, reported Hussein after discovering he had been looking at dead bodies on school computers and fearing an Islamist link, sources said.

Former classmates said the killer had a grim fascination with the Devil and Adolf Hitler.

He was assigned a Home office ‘mentor’ but in May 2018 was discharged. Prevent officers carried out checks after six and 12 months but found no signs he was a threat.

But two years later, Hussein butchered Miss Smallman, 27, and Miss Henry in Fryent Country Park in Wembley, north-west London, after months of researching satanism and extreme Right-wing ideologies.

Hussein first attacked social worker Miss Henry, who had been celebrating her 46th birthday, stabbing her eight times. Her sister, a photographer, fought back as Hussein knifed her 28 times.

She injured her attacker, who attended Northwick Park hospital the same day with a hand wound.

The senior investigating officer, DCI Simon Harding, said her bravery had saved lives.

‘I am totally convinced that he would have gone on to commit more murders,’ he said. ‘I think the injuries to his hand were so significant he would have struggled to hold anything because of the pain.’

The sisters were reported missing at 9pm and the following day Adam Stone, Miss Smallman’s boyfriend, found their bodies. ‘I will never be able to un-see what I saw,’ he said in a victim impact statement. Hussein said his hand injury was the result of being mugged when he was arrested at Taser-point at his mother’s house in Eltham, south-east London, on July 1. He denied the killings despite overwhelming evidence against him.

The women’s mother, the Venerable Mina Smallman, Britain’s first black female Anglican archdeacon, said that throughout his old Bailey trial the family had prayed he would change his plea to guilty.

‘We hoped every time there was a hearing that the defendant would do the right thing...and find some humanity within him to spare us all the nightmare journey,’ she added.

But he denied every charge and demonstrated contempt for the victims and the legal system by his ‘despicable’ behaviour in court.

Mr Harding said: ‘He has been trying to attract attention, often trying to engage with the family or trying to catch their eye.

‘He was making “loser” signs with his hand at witnesses trying to give evidence, professional witnesses.’

Mr Harding said Hussein ‘has an ideology that has led him to commit these murders with such calmness and he is quite a frightening character’. Jurors found Hussein guilty of two counts of murder and one of having an offensive weapon.

He crossed his arms and shook his head as the verdicts were read out, before making a request to speak that was denied by the judge.

Mrs Justice Whipple set a provisional date of September 22 for sentence and asked for detailed psychiatric reports to be prepared.

Mina Smallman last night criticised the police response once her daughters were reported missing.

‘There seemed to be no sense of urgency,’ she told ITV news. ‘This is not a competition, but actually, in places like Brent or south London, there’s a view of who they think we are as people of colour and we get treated differently.’ She described Hussein as a ‘sad young man’. ‘I don’t hate him, because I wouldn’t allow that to hold me back.

‘He’s not going to hold me emotionally captive,’ she said.

‘A frightening character’