How criminology student’s sick fantasy of true-crime TV show probing his ‘motiveless’ murder of innocent mum unravelled
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TWISTED misogynist Nasen Saadi thought he could get away with murder - picking two purely innocent women enjoying an evening on the beach to play out his warped “True Crime” fantasy. The 20-year-old spent months plotting his heinous crime and executed it to a tee, brutally killing Amie Gray and then covering his steps by destroying all evidence and denying in cold blood that it was him.
![[CCTV shows Nasen Saadi prowling near the scene in the days before the attack]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cps-pa-wire-note-editors-958341983.jpg?strip=all&w=869)
He even picked a beauty spot on Bournemouth beach where he could make his escape, a path known locally as the 39 steps - after the classic Hitchcock thriller about a man wrongly accused of murder. But the criminology student was no criminal mastermind and left a trail of clues including a murderers toolkit, a dark internet search history of high profile killings and knife websites, and an armoury of blades at his home.
![[He's been found guilty of murder and attempted murder]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dorset-police-pa-wire-note-958335309.jpg?strip=all&w=933)
Just days before the horrific stabbings he had gone to watch slasher movie The Strangers which he later told detectives was “about a killer that kills with no motive. It's just a movie.”. But for Saadi it was not just a movie. As the prosecution said “He wanted the notoriety a killing of this sort might bring him...wanted to be the star from a true crime episode, to choose his own attack, in a motiveless killing he designed himself.”.
![[Saadi appeared via video link at Winchester Crown Court]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/court-artist-sketch-elizabeth-cook-956028933_09f5f6.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
His internet search history showed he researched famous murders including Brianna Ghey and Milly Dowler. Alarm bells had rung when he had repeatedly asked his lecturers off-topic questions about the intricacies of killing, DNA and how to get away with murder.
![[Saadi told police he was not responsible for the attack]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/fe846875-bc07-4ea2-841c-817fb3e31b6d.jpg?strip=all&w=834)
