Cop found accused ‘Lottery Killer’s’ knife in the grass

A police officer told a court how he saw their bodies of two sisters murdered at a park birthday party entwined together in the undergrowth and then found a kitchen knife in the long grass.

Danyal Hussein, 19, is accused of murdering sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, in Fryent Country Park, Wembley in a demonic pact to win the lottery.

Hussein’s had written out a contract with ‘demon’ Lucifuge Rofocale to sacrifice six women every six months to win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot and signed it in his blood, the Old Bailey has heard.

CCTV shows Hussein leaving and entering the park and his blood and DNA were found at the scene, but he denies being there.

PC Simon Dowley told the court he arrived at the park at 1.25pm on June 7 last year after friends of the victims found their bodies.

‘I as I approached the bushes and looked into the bushes I could see the two deceased females,’ he said.

‘The only way to describe it is intertwined with each other, lying on the floor.

‘DC (Fifi) Gaskin told me to step back and to deal with witnesses in the area,’ said PC Dowley.

The officer spoke to David Stone, who had originally found a black handled kitchen knife, and asked him to direct him towards it.

Prosecutor Oliver Glasgow asked him: ‘Initially, is it right to say you couldn’t find it?’

‘It was long grass, waist high and he pointed me in the general direction,’ said PC Dowley.

Jurors heard that officers on the scene originally intended to wait for a specialised police blood dog but after becoming concerned the rain might return they started to look for it themselves.

Bodyworn camera played for the jury showed PC Dowley rummaging through the grass in the hill before finding the knife.

He additionally discovered a pink can of Gordon’s gin and tonic near the weapon.

The court earlier saw CCTV of the sisters in high spirits buying supplies for the birthday party, including alcohol and soft drinks.

Detective Sergeant Mark Johnson told jurors when he arrived at the scene he was initially unable to spot the bodies through the thick vegetation.

‘It was a very dense foliage in the bushes.

‘It would have been easy to walk straight past it without seeing the bodies inside,’ he said.

DS Johnson then went on to set up an inner police cordon around the location where the slain sisters were found.

‘I tried to make it as large as possible.

‘It is very difficult to set up a cordon on open land,’ he added.

DS Michael Hartley, from a homicide unit, said the scene where the sisters’ bodies were found was ‘quite disturbing’.

‘I was very conscious of securing the scene.

‘There were officers already there,’ he said.

He told the court that after the pathologist examined the scene, the condition of the sisters’ clothing indicated that they had been dragged to the hedgerow where they were found.

Hussein bought three lottery tickets from the ASDA Charlton Superstore on the evening of 29 June, National Lottery operator Camelot have confirmed to jurors.

He first bought a Lotto Draw ticket at 9:38pm – one minute later he bought Thunderball and Euromillions tickets.

Ms Henry, a social worker, had been stabbed eight times and Ms Smallman, who worked in the hospitality industry, had suffered 28 injuries, the court has heard.

Hussein, of Guy Barnett Grove, Blackheath, southeast London, denies two counts of murder and possessing a knife.

The trial continues.