Countdown To Murder

A new TV documentary about the murder of two sisters has pieced together their final hours and their mother’s suffering after they died in the ‘worst of circumstances’.

Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were stabbed while celebrating the latter’s birthday at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, North West London, in June 2020.

Their killer, Danyal Hussein, was imprisoned at the Old Bailey in October 2021, aged 19, for a minimum of 35 years for savagely killing them as part of a Satanic blood pact.

They were found murdered by Ms Smallman’s boyfriend, but, in a sickening twist, the bereaved family encountered a double impact when it emerged two police officers had taken selfies with their dead bodies and shared them in two WhatsApp groups.

Metropolitan Police constables Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were then imprisoned for two years and nine months in December 2021 after admitting wrongdoing in public office.

Now, a new Sky series ‘Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park’ is set to air on Sunday at 9 pm and has unravelled the story behind their killings and the police wrongdoing.

A trailer features two short clips of their mother, Mina Smallman, speaking, as she is first heard saying: ‘Bibaa and Nicole, my girls, they planned a picnic together.’

In reference to the officers sharing photographs of the sisters, she adds: ‘I’ve lost two of my daughters in the worst of circumstances. What on earth could be worse?’

The former teacher and priest has previously said that a police call handler never got back to her after she reported her daughters as missing. She has also claimed that she thought a search was not initially launched by police because of their ethnicity.

Along with the opinions of the homicide detectives working on the case, the documentary also features interviews with the tiny circle of friends and relatives who are at the heart of the hunt for the sisters.

Quotes in the trailer also included ‘no one could have expected what was going to happen’; ‘the police haven’t turned up’; ‘you should never be the person to find the one you love dead when you’ve reported them missing’; and ‘it was harrowing’.

The programme looks at how a bunch of friends had assembled in the park as pandemic lockdown rules started to relax, as they celebrated Ms Henry’s birthday.

As night fell, several of the group slowly made their way home, but the two sisters remained in the park and continued to dance into the night. They never came home.

In the early hours of June 6, 2020, Hussein had stalked his victims. He later stabbed Ms Henry eight times, before he slashed Ms Smallman 28 times as she fought back.

He then dragged them into bushes where they lay undiscovered for 36 hours.

On the evening of June 6, the sisters’ anxious loved ones reported them missing, but officers were not deployed to the park until the following day.

The remains were discovered by Adam Stone, Ms. Smallman’s boyfriend, before their arrival.

Officers then searched and identified the DNA of an unidentified male from blood on the knife, bodies and surrounding location.

Then on June 30, a DNA familial link was made to Hussein’s father, who had a past caution. 

Within an hour-and-a-half, Hussein was identified on CCTV purchasing knives in Asda and returning home after the killings.

Police later discovered a handwritten pledge to a demonic entity called ‘King Lucifuge Rofocale’ to kill six women every six months, which was marked in blood. 

But in a startling turn of events, two police officers had taken pictures of the women’s bodies and posted them on WhatsApp.

The Old Bailey was informed that the responsibility of safeguarding the scene fell to Jaffer and Lewis, neither of whom was wearing forensic gear.

While at the scene, Jaffer took four photos of the bodies in situ and Lewis took two, and superimposed his face on a third to create a ‘selfie-style’ picture.

According to the court, Hussein was able to present the ficticious defence that the damning DNA evidence could have been tainted because of the officers’ actions.

The Old Bailey was also told that Hussein had embarked on a ‘campaign of vengeance’ against random women in a failed bid to win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot lottery prize of £321 million.

Hussein researched the far-right and Norse mythology online before the murders, and he talked to others about demons and love potions.

Hussein refused to testify during his trial, arguing that he had nothing to do with the murders or the pact’s composition.

However, he was convicted of two murder charges and knife possession.

Former Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick issued a public apology in 2021 on behalf of the force to the family.

This is absurd; he should have been sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of release.

The problem is that, although we are all aware of how jail terms ought to operate in the UK, they frequently don’t.

The judge ought to have given Danyal Hussein a life sentence since he is just too dangerous to ever be freed.

These police officers’ sharing of selfies, which is completely reprehensible, ruined the dignity of these young girls even after they passed away, and yet these police officers are allegedly protecting our streets, which is utterly disgraceful.

Frankly, what kind of people does the position of a police officer entice?

It seems there are many morally corrupt men and women walking around with warrant cards. I mean, just look at the utterly appalling breaches of trust we have come to learn about, let alone the ones that have been covered up by the Met.

The misuse of power by individuals in positions of authority is a severe issue that is only worsening.

Since today’s police forces, particularly the Met, are falling short of the public’s expectations on several levels, we must devise a whole new strategy to safeguard our citizens and uphold the law.

The police force’s decision-makers appear to lack any common sense, and because they are the most dangerous, they need to be watching out for those who use their badge to gain power.

They are low life scum, and are behaving like animals, although we shouldn’t speak badly of animals.

Evil is a part of our society now, and this was a sickening crime. Danyal Hussein should never be freed from prison because his actual motivation was hatred of women. He said that he wanted to kill two women every six months, so why was this not highlighted in the media at the time? Because the increase in misogyny is now being overlooked in our society.

This is the Met police again delivering the quality of service we’ve come to accept but also despise. This is the quality of waste we accept – I guess we should just be thankful that these police officers didn’t go on a killing binge themselves so that they could keep the selfies rolling in. Hopefully, their punishment will teach them a valuable lesson, or maybe not.

However, we shouldn’t tarnish the entire police force – the vast majority are decent, although I wouldn’t want their jobs, but it does make you wonder why the public has lost all respect for the police, particularly the Metropolitan police, and these police officers are the dregs of our society.