A MUM screamed “Get off me” and her friend pleaded “Stop, I’ve got children” as they were stabbed on the beach, a court heard.
Amie Gray, 34, was stabbed to death and friend Leanne Miles seriously injured in a “random” attack on Durley Chine beach in May.
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Amie Gray, 34, died at the scene after being stabbed multiple times Credit: Unpixs
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Amien’s wife Sian Gray outside Winchester Crown Court last week Credit: Solent
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Court sketch of Nasen Saadi appearing via video link at Winchester Crown Court in June earlier this yearCredit: PA
Criminology student Nasen Saadi, 20, researched methods of murder, including that of Brianna Ghey, before the alleged attack, a court was told today.
Amie and Leanne were chatting by the fire to keep warm when Saadi allegedly randomly attacked them.
Saadi is on trial at Winchester Crown Court charged with the murder of Amie and the attempted murder of Leanne.
The court heard today how Saadi, who was studying at Greenwich, was asked by one of his lecturers: “You’re not planning a murder, are you?”
It came after he asked his lecturers a series of questions about defenses to murder.
Saadi would also ask questions unrelated to the subject of the lesson, including the self-defense justification for murder, DNA analysis and other forensic evidence, the court heard.
Sarah Jones KC, prosecuting, told the court: “It seems this defendant wanted to know what it would be like to take a life, maybe he wanted to know what it would be like if women were scared, maybe he thought it would make him feel powerful, do him to interesting others.
“Maybe he just couldn’t bear to see people engaged in happy normal social interaction and decided to attack, hurt, butcher.”
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The prosecutor added: “Deliberately, slowly, stealthily and quietly, when he thought no one would notice him, he hovered at the edges of the promenade, then stood on the sand and walked directly towards the two women with a knife in his hand.
“In an act horrifying in its savagery and in its randomness, he stabbed them both repeatedly, chasing them as they tried to escape or distract him from the other, and he continued his attack.
“He left them on the sand to bleed to death while he stepped back and tried to disappear back into the shadows, away from the glare of street lights or moonlight and back into anonymity.
“He got rid of the weapon. He changed his clothes and shoes and got rid of them.”
In a 999 call played in court, Leanne was heard crying out in pain.
She could be heard telling the operator: “I’ve been stabbed so many times. Oh my God, my head is spinning, please hurry, please hurry.”
Leanne then says she doesn’t know where Amie is, adding: “Oh, I’m sick, they have to be faster, I’m in a lot of pain, are you still there, please don’t leave me.”
She continues, “I’m bleeding everywhere, I’ve been stabbed a bunch of times.”
Saadi also said he researched the knives online before buying them.
In March, he also researched “why it is harder to catch a murderer if he does it in another city” and “which is the deadliest knife”.
He also looked up Bournemouth Beach, how many people visited, whether it was open at night and which hotels did not have CCTV cameras, the court heard.
Saadi stayed at the Travelodge hotel from May 21, and two days later at the nearby Silver How Guest house.
The night before the alleged attack, Saadi reportedly went to see the movie Strangers, in which both the male and female leads were stabbed.
On the night of the alleged stabbing, Saadi was walking along the boardwalk to Durley Chine at night, jurors were told.
Leanne, who survived, described the horror to police.
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Amie Gray (right) with wife Sian on the beach Credit: FACEBOOK/UNPIXS
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Amie was stabbed multiple times while on the beach with a friend Credit: FACEBOOK/UNPIXS
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Court sketch of Nasen Saadi appearing at Winchester Crown Court last weekCredit: PA
She said Amie tried to run away from their attacker, but they then came back to stab her.
Mrs Miles said: “I ran to the top of the walkway and I heard Amie saying ‘get off me’.
“I couldn’t see her because she was down on the beach where it was dark.
“I think the guy must have rushed back to the boardwalk. I couldn’t see anybody, there was, there was nobody around.
“And he came back to me, stabbing me continuously, and I told him to stop.
– I always had my back turned to him, so all my injuries are on one side of my back.
She also said: “I didn’t want to watch it. I couldn’t watch it.
“And I told him, I said, ‘please stop’. I said, ‘please stop, I have children’.
“And then I think that’s when he started, he left.”
CCTV allegedly captured the attack, before Saadi was positively identified by a photographer who was in the area at the time, the court heard.
In an interview with police, Saadi said he was interested in true crime and enjoyed horror films.
He also admitted visiting Bournemouth but said he may have suffered a “blackout” or “been hit because he had been drinking”.
A subsequent search of his home turned up several knives that showed his “fascination” with them, as well as latex gloves, a flashlight and a black balaclava.
Saadi, who pleaded guilty to failing to give police his mobile phone passcode, denies the allegations.
The trial continues.
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A tribute to Amie has arrived following her death earlier this yearCredit: PA
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A police cordon at the scene in Bournemouth, DorsetCredit: Alamy
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