On 6 June 2020, sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were murdered by Danyal Hussein in Fryent Country Park, London.
[3][4][5][6] The incident also provoked discussion of the ease of online access to violent cultist and political material, which influenced and motivated the killer.
[7][8] The mother of the two victims, Mina Smallman, called on the Metropolitan Police Chief Cressida Dick to resign over the way the case was handled.
[6] They were the daughters of the Venerable Mina Smallman, the Church of England's first female archdeacon from a black and minority ethnic background.
[17] CCTV footage at captured the sisters making their way to the birthday picnic, held locally due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the United Kingdom.
[21][22] Family and friends reported the sisters missing on the evening of 6 June and were advised policemen would deploy resources to conduct enquiries into their whereabouts, but they failed to do so.
Smallman's boyfriend Adam Stone, his parents, and a friend of Henry, went looking for the sisters on 7 June in Fryent Country Park, finding their sunglasses and a bloodied knife.
Hussein, a student at Orpington College,[25] had drawn up a handwritten contract, signed in his own blood, which states that he had made a pact with Lucifuge Rofocale, a demon mentioned in the Grand Grimoire, a historic black magic text, to murder six women every six months in return for financial reward including winning a lottery jackpot.
[26][27][28] Another note contained an offer of blood sacrifice to "demon Queen Byleth [sic]" in exchange for making a fellow student fall in love with him.
[33] Lawrence was a member of a U.S. branch of the Order of Nine Angles and had been convicted of six third-degree felonies for possession of drugs and a restricted firearm in 2014.
[44][45] Prosecutor, Oliver Glasgow QC told the jury, "Given the weight of the evidence against him, only someone who actually believes that an agreement with a demon will work could refuse to accept any aspect of the case against him.
[51] The IOPC reported that: "The investigation has also uncovered further alleged misconduct breaches of the standards of professional behaviour for a small number of officers which include honesty and integrity, and equality and diversity".
Mina Smallman, mother of the murdered sisters said in a victim impact statement, "It made me think of the lynchings in the Deep South of USA where you would see smiling faces around a hanging dead body.
[55] Following investigation of Jaffer's phone, it was found that he had used racist language regarding a separate case involving the assault of South Asian men.
[5][61][62][63] Mina Smallman maintains the police did not care about the missing sisters before the bodies were found because one was "a black woman who lives on a council estate.
"[22] Mina Smallman spoke about Hussein after his conviction, saying that she would not spend her life hating him; she voiced concern that he would be further radicalised in prison.
[71] Barry Gardiner MP of the local Brent North constituency told the Today programme that the Metropolitan Police "need to have a root and branch reform in the way in which it operates, the way in which it treats people".
[62][5][3][74][75][76] In the foreword of the UK government's strategy for tackling violence against women and girls[77] the Home Secretary Priti Patel said "these crimes are still far too prevalent and there are too many instances of victims and survivors being let down.