TOM RAWSTORNE: Why a criminology student who stabbed two random women 30 times because he wanted to star in his own murder mystery was so hopeless

Arriving late for the lecture, the young man took his seat at the back of the hall, not even bothering to remove the pair of large red headphones he was wearing. Amie was described by her mother as some whose 'presence could not be ignored' Sian Gray also paid tribute to her late wife and praised medics who helped her Sian Gray with her wife Amie Gray who died after being stabbed on Durley Chine Beach, Bournemouth at around 11.45pm on May 24 Sian Gray, the wife of Amie, outside Winchester Crown Court ‘Though both victims were chosen at random, Nasen Saadi’s unfathomable desire to carry out a murder was backed up by extensive planning – which included going to great lengths to avoid getting caught,’ he said. The criminology student was seen on CCTV lurking behind Mrs Gray and Ms Miles just 20 minutes before attacking them Saadi is seen on CCTV less than 20 minutes before he launched a ferocious knife attack on Mrs Gray and Ms Miles Saadi walking along promenade on Bournemouth seafront, where Amie Gray and Leanne Miles were said to be sitting, on the night of May 24 A keen sportsman, he enjoyed football and running, taking part in athletics meets and weekly 5km ‘parkruns’. It was while at university when lecturer Lisa-Maria Reiss noticed Saadi’s unusual, off-topic questions Saadi at Riddlesdown railway station, south London, before heading to Bournemouth Saadi arriving at a Travelodge hotel in Bournemouth on May 21 Saadi was recorded at the beach on the same day as arriving in Bournemouth, in what was described as the first of several visits to survey the scene ‘He asked how far away someone would have to travel to get away with certain offences.’ In his defence, it would be claimed that these questions were par for the course for a criminology student with an interest in ‘true crime’. Oh my God I am getting dizzy, please hurry up, please hurry up.’ Court sketch of Nasen Saadi who has been found guilty of the murder of 34-year-old Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach and the attempted murder of Leanne Miles Benjamin May senior Crown Prosecutor with CPS Wessex, speaks to the media outside Winchester Crown Court Analysis of CCTV footage, which had captured the attack, led to the identification of Saadi who was also subsequently picked out of a line-up of photos by a man who had seen him hurrying away on the night of the murder.