Family of sisters murdered by Satanic killer consider suing Met Police

Family of sisters murdered by Satanic killer consider suing the Met Police ‘for not doing anything’ after they were first reported missing before later being discovered by boyfriend

Danyal Hussein murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman in attack in Wembley with a kitchen knife
The sisters took a selfie as they noticed their killer approaching them after an evening partying last June
Their mother Mina Smallman said today her family could bring legal action against Met Police
She said ‘we are going to make it really, really clear they did not do what they should have done’
Nicole’s boyfriend, Adam Stone’ reported sisters missing on June 6 but found their bodies himself a day later
Mrs Smallman claimed he said ‘that he had phoned the police and that they are not doing anything’
Hussein used his blood to sign a bizarre agreement with a ‘demon’ to sacrifice them to win lottery
Bibaa, 46, and Nicole, 27, were found dead in Fryent Country Park, Wembley, just hours after birthday party

The family of two sisters murdered by a Satan-worshipper over alleged failures to act when the women were reported missing by their family.

Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were murdered on Saturday, June 6 last year while partying together in a north London park after a picnic to celebrate Bibaa’s 46th birthday.

Danyal Hussein, 19, stabbed the women to death after signing a deal with the devil in his own blood to kill the women in exchange for winning the £321million Mega Millions Super Jackpot lottery and not being suspected of his crimes.

After he was convicted on Tuesday, his victims’ mother, Mina Smallman, accused Scotland Yard of racial bias because of its slow response when her daughters were reported missing on June 6.

Today, Mrs Smallman revealed her family could bring legal action against the Metropolitan Police. The force is already the subject of an the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its response.

The mother told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme: ‘Every call the Met received, we have a log of friends of mine who have logged every single call. We are going to make it really, really clear they did not do what they should have done.’

Bibaa and Nicole’s bodies were found by Nicole’s boyfriend, Adam Stone on June 7. Whilst he recalls calling the Met at 5pm on June 6 to report them missing, the force itself said the first missing persons call was made at 9pm.

Speaking to ITV News, Mrs Smallman claimed Mr Stone ‘said that he had phoned the police and that they are not doing anything.’ She added: ‘To cut a very long story short, we had to do the missing persons [search]. We had to track down who was at the picnic.’

The news of potential legal action comes after the last ‘haunting’ selfie’ taken by Bibaa and Nicole as they spotted Hussein approaching moments before he murdered them emerged.

The sisters had shot 150 photographs capturing their euphoria of being together after months of lockdown.

In the final photo, taken at 1.13am, both women can be seen looking to their left ‘as if distracted’ in Fryent Country Park, Wembley. Investigating officers believe this is the moment they became aware of the approach of Hussein, who was then 18.

The family of two sisters murdered by a Satan-worshipper over alleged failures to act when the women were reported missing by their family. Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were murdered on Saturday, June 6 last year while partying together in a north London park after a picnic to celebrate Bibaa’s 46th birthday

Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were found dead following the ‘terrifying’ murder carried out under cover of darkness – and police believe this selfie may have been the moment they saw Danyal Hussein approaching

Hussein was about to start to fulfil his ‘contract’ with a demon he had named Lucifuge Rofocale – signed in his own blood – in which he promised to kill six women in six months in return for winning the £321million Mega Millions Super Jackpot lottery and not being suspected of his crimes.

Such was his obsession with winning a huge sum, he spent £180 on Lotto tickets in the days before he struck.

Mrs Smallman said on the Today programme on Wednesday that the police should have taken the sisters’ disappearance more seriously.

‘When we said their ages and it was not their normal behaviour that in itself should have taken it up to maximum security,’ she said.

She said that the family was yet to bring a legal case because of the ongoing IOPC investigation

‘I don’t have an agenda to topple anything. What I want to do is make things better so that the things that happened to us never happen to anyone else,’ she added.

Jurors were not told that Hussein, now 19, had previously come to the attention of police aged just 15 over fears he was vulnerable to radicalisation and violent extremism.

Mrs Smallman, a retired Church of England cleric, earlier told BBC news: ‘The problem is the people who are supposed to be assessing and taking responsibility, there’s a gap from stage to stage so they get lost in the system.

The saddest thing is, if this young man does have this tendency, when he goes into prison he is going to be even more radicalised. He is a killer now, he’ll be a killing machine by the time he comes out.’

She also described forgiving him because he has ‘no power in our lives’, and revealed Hussein would position himself in the dock so he could stare at her and smile during the most gruesome evidence.

She said: ‘This animal.. he looked at me straight in my eyes and gave this sinister little smile. So I smiled back and winked and he went doolally because I gave him that and I wouldn’t give him the privilege of letting him feel he had destroyed me’. Hussein will be sentenced on September 22.

Hussein had spent £160 on lottery tickets in the days before he murdered the sisters. These were found by police in his room

Murderer: Danyal Hussein, 19, who killed sisters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, seen here in his police mugshot. He would try to intimidate and give ‘sinister smiles’ to their mother Mina, who today revealed that she smiled back to show he had ‘no power’ over the family

Murderer Danyal Hussein holds his hands up in the air as police arrest him at his home following the discovery of the sisters

Hussein used his own blood to sign an agreement with a ‘demon’ named Lucifuge Rofocale promising to ‘sacrifice’ women

Inked in blood: The signature of the murderer penned in his own bodily fluids on the ‘deal’ to the devil for a lottery win

Detectives were unable to access 80 per cent of the data on Hussein’s Apple iPad.

The killer told police he had forgotten his password and a request to US courts for the information was denied because it was unlikely anything on the device would directly link him to the murders.

Scotland Yard’s Simon Harding likened it to running an investigation ‘with your hands tied behind your back’.

He said police needed the password to help find out if there were other ‘likeminded’ people they needed to trace.

Apple said it had no record of the application as it was made directly to the courts.

Hussein had been on a de-radicalisation programme between October 2017 and May 2018 after being referred to the Prevent scheme by his school.

Following his arrest, police found Hussein had communicated with others about demons and love potions, and carried out online research about the far-right and Norse mythology.

He had made a pact with a mythical demon to kill six women every six months in return for winning the lottery.

Mrs Smallman said law enforcement should be allowed access to all communication devices belonging to those suspected of extremism.

She told the BBC: ‘Once they have proven that they are not working within the right systems, they’re not in a good place, we need to be able to gain access to that information.’

In the early hours of June 6 he stabbed Bibaa eight times, and her sister 28 times, with a 12-inch knife. He hid their bodies in undergrowth where they would not be found for 36 hours by Nicole’s boyfriend. Police believe if they had not caught him he would have killed again.

‘No one expects their children to die before them, but to have two out of three of your children murdered on the same night is just incomprehensible,’ said the victims’ mother Mina Smallman in her victim impact statement.

Mrs Smallman, a retired Church of England archdeacon, has accused the Metropolitan Police of racial bias because of the slow response when her daughters were reported missing on June 6. The force faces a probe by the police watchdog after the family had to set up their own search party when officers failed to arrive, with Nicole’s boyfriend finding the bodies on June 7.

Mina Smallman, mother of the two victims looking on as Danyal Hussein appears in the dock at the Old Bailey, where he would try to intimidate and provoke her. She refused and would smile and wink back

How Satanist sixth former was referred to Prevent aged 15 over far-right propaganda he viewed on school computers – but was discharged less than a year later after he was deemed no risk

Hussein had attended Thomas Tallis School in Kidbrooke, South London where he was reported to the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation programme in October 2017, at the age of 15.

The school raised concerns that Hussein ‘may have been displaying vulnerability to radicalisation’ and, after a further assessment, he was referred to the Channel programme, which is part of Prevent.

Seven months later, in May 2018 he was discharged from the Channel process with ‘no outstanding concerns at that time with respect to violent extremism or terrorism,’ according to a Home Office statement.

After leaving the Channel programme, Hussein continued to receive ‘relevant support’ from his school, health and social services, and ‘no further concerns were raised over his behaviour in respect of Prevent.’

In addition, the Prevent officers also carried out reviews at six and 12 months after he was discharged from the Channel process, and ‘nothing of concern was identified to prompt any further intervention from Channel or Prevent,’ the statement said.

Detectives now question whether Hussein may already have been set on a path to rightwing extremism and Satanism.

Sam Armstrong, of the Henry Jackson Society think tank, told MailOnline: ‘Time and time again individuals who commit the most heinous acts of violence and terrorism are found to have been on the radar of counter-extremism officials.

‘The government must now urgently investigate whether the protocols for being dismissed as not posing a danger are sufficiently robust to deal with the threat that we face.

‘Future lives depend on getting this right.’

Two officers have already been charged with misconduct in public office after apparently taking selfies with the bodies and sharing them on WhatsApp groups.

Hussein was referred to Prevent for far-right extremism aged 15 – but discharged months later as no risk.

The spells-obsessed killer had cut himself to use his own blood to sign an agreement with a ‘demon’ named Lucifuge Rofocale promising to ‘sacrifice’ women in exchange for the Mega Millions Super Jackpot.

The shocked Old Bailey heard during his trial that in another note, he offered blood for ‘sexual potency’ and to make a girl at his school fall in love with him.

Police yesterday released the moment he was apprehended, circled outside his mother’s home with tasers trained upon him.

MailOnline can also now disclose Hussein, who has Iraqi Kurdish heritage, had been referred to a de-radicalisation programme at the age of 15 by his school who feared he was ‘vulnerable to grooming’.

Hussein had attended Thomas Tallis School in Kidbrooke, South London where he was reported to the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation programme in October 2017.

It came after teachers found material he had accessed on school computers, including far-right propaganda.

Police after his arrest had also wanted to ask tech giant Apple for help because they were unable to see what he viewed or who he talked to – but the US courts refused to compel them to ‘crack’ storage used by his laptop.

Armed with a knife bought in Asda, Hussein had launched a ‘terrifying’ attack on Bibaa and Nicole in north London.

Having cut his hand in the process, he then dragged their bodies into bushes in a final heartless indignity for the innocent pair.

Hussein, who declined to give evidence, has disputed DNA found at the scene or that he was caught on any CCTV, including footage of a person returning to his home after the killings in the early hours of June 6.

But his lies were seen through by the jury in London’s famous crown court.

The mother of the two sisters, The Venerable Mina Smallman, spoke outside the Old Bailey after Danyal Hussein was convicted of their murders.

The retired cleric said: ‘I have made no bones about my complaints with the Metropolitan Police office but I have to say I can only commend them. This team moved heaven and earth to ensure we felt that we were being supported.

‘This is the kind of police force that I believe in and we need to work towards so we have justice and families are treated with respect.’

She added: ‘We remember our girls as the wonderful, strong women they were and we hope that some good will come out of this horrible story.’

In his closing speech, Mr Glasgow QC had 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.

Armed with a knife bought in Asda, teenager (above, Hussein in Asda) launched a ‘terrifying’ attack on Bibaa and Nicole

Danyal Hussein here in a picture that had been shown to the jury at the Old Bailey trial of a photo used to get bank account

How Apple password frustrated the police investigation

Police know that Hussein accessed the dark web but not what he viewed or who he talked to because he refused to give them the password to his laptop which had been used to surf the ‘dark web’.

They could not fully access his Apple iPad and police never found his mobile phone.

‘There’s not really a huge amount of information about how he became fascinated with demons and the occult because it was all done, behind locked doors in his bedroom essentially,’ Mr Harding said.

‘In my experience in murder investigations, my colleagues will say the same, we always seem to come to the same problem, getting into certain devices, and asking to get into them and sometimes being refused due to whatever reasons there might be.

‘I personally find it strange that you wouldn’t help in those certain situations because the reason you want to get in there is to understand if there are other people with a similar mindset that he’s talking to that we would need to get into interventions or whatever it might be.

‘So I think it’s incredibly frustrating to run a murder inquiry when your hands are tied behind your back in that way.’

‘Perhaps he still believes that Lucifuge Rofocale will come to his aid, but unfortunately for the defendant, there are no deals to be had in these courts and the devil – if he is anywhere – is in the detail. ‘

Outlining the tragic circumstances, he said: ‘For Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, Friday, June 5 was supposed to be a celebration of life; a birthday party, a night where you reflect on the year you have had and look forward to the year that will be.

‘It was supposed to be an evening of friendship and love; a chance to spend time with those closest to you.

‘And it was supposed to end with both sisters returning home to their loved ones with smiles on their faces and fond memories to look back on.

‘For this defendant, however, the celebration he had planned was quite different.

‘It was a celebration of death, not of life; it was a night of sacrifice and violence, not of shared emotions; and it was the start of his planned campaign of vengeance that would see part of his twisted bargain fulfilled and leave him looking forward to the riches he believed would soon come his way.

‘It is hard to imagine that anyone could do to another human being what this defendant did to Bibaa and Nicole; but to have planned it, to have prepared it and to have performed it with such ruthless selfishness it truly terrifying.

‘He did not care what he had to do to get what he wanted, and these two women were nothing more than a means to a very disturbing end.

‘Indeed, the last few minutes of Bibaa and Nicole’s lives must have been truly terrifying.’

The defendant’s claim that someone else wrote the agreement to sacrifice women for a lottery win was almost as ridiculous as the document itself, the lawyer asserted.

A knife similar to the one bought by Danyal Hussein in Asda in Colindale he used to murder the two innocent sisters

Hussein showing a cut on his hand following his arrest which he got murdering the sisters in his frenzied knife attack

Bibaa Henry’s mobile phone, along with a bank card and a driving licence after they were retrieved from a pond in Fryent Country Park

Documents found in the room of Danyal Hussein, including spells and pacts to the devil and strange symbols

‘The person responsible for this perverse document and the person responsible for the brutal slaying of two women are one and the same individual: this defendant,’ Mr Glasgow said.

He also dismissed the suggestion by the defence that the crime scene could have been contaminated, saying there was no evidence from Hussein to explain how his blood and DNA got there.

Earlier, trial judge Mrs Justice Whipple warned jurors not to be drawn into speculation or influenced by emotion as they assessed the evidence.

On the central issue of the case, she said the prosecution say the evidence shows the killer was Hussein while the defendant asserts that the jury ‘cannot be sure of that’.

Lawyers for Hussein claim a ‘mystery man’ who looks like the teenager bought the knives at the supermarket and purchased shovels and mask from Amazon.

An unknown person also wrote out the contract with Lucifuge Rofocale – then signed it in Hussein’s blood and left it under the television in his bedroom.

The tragedy for the sisters’ family was to be compounded by official errors, police incompetence and corporate privacy issues.

This included an earlier, failed, opportunity to identify and attempt to change Hussein’s mindset when he was suspected of far-Right sympathies, aged 15, and the dilatory police response to reports of the sisters’ disappearance.

A US court’s refusal to grant detectives access to Hussein’s Apple iPad also led senior investigator Detective Chief Inspector Simon Harding to complain that police were trying to investigate the murders ‘with our hands tied behind our backs’.

DCI Simon Harding, the senior investigating officer for Operation Saxonstreet, said after the case: ‘This has been a shocking case that will stay with all of us for many years to come, not least the awful way in which these two vibrant women met their deaths but also Hussein’s bizarre deluded fantasies that he should sacrifice the women in exchange for a lottery win.

‘I strongly believe that he would have gone on to kill more women if he hadn’t injured his hand in such a way that he did when he killed Bibaa and Nicole.

‘It’s very difficult for my team still to this day to comprehend that this 18-year-old boy, as he was at the time, could have carried out such and such savage attacks.

‘He showed disrespect for everything, for the families, support systems, the process, police, paramedics, everybody – and the jury,’ Mr Harding said.

The contract with the devil talked about sacrificing women to win the lottery but police say they could ‘never rule out’ a racist motive because of ‘right-wing themes’ in his online activity.

Hussein’s online conversations showed ‘some limited evidence of far-right thoughts’ but most was to do with ‘love spells and potions’, Mr Harding said.

A black balaclava found on the floor of a wardrobe in a bedroom at Hussein’s home during the police searches

A bloodstained cushion bearing the the words ‘Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass’. It was found in recovery of evidence during the investigation into the murder

A large blue holdall which was recovered during a search at a refuse centre, containing bloodstained grey blankets, an unopened sparkling wine bottle, a selfie stick and LED colour changing lights

Timeline of Danyal Hussein’s murder plot after ‘pact with devil’

Danyal Hussein planned and executed his diabolical plan to kill women and get away with it with ‘ruthless selfishness’, jurors heard before they found the 19 year old guilty of two murders.

Here are the key events in the murders of sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry.

– June 3: Danyal Hussein is caught on CCTV buying a knife block – identical to a bloody blade later recovered from the murder scene – at Asda in Colindale, north London. He returns later and purchases tape.

Hussein buys a full face mask and shovels on Amazon.

– June 4: Hussein sets up an online betting account with Lottogo.com which runs bets on the Mega Millions Super Jackpot.

– June 5: Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry are seen stocking up on picnic items for Ms Henry’s birthday in a Co-op before walking into Fryent Country Park in Wembley at 7.39pm.

Hussein picks up his Amazon purchases at Morrisons before going to the park at 8.40pm.

– June 6: The last guests leave after midnight and the sisters dance with fairy lights and clear up the picnic area.

At 1.13am the sisters take a final selfie and their attention appears distracted. Hussein launches his attack soon after, cutting himself in the process.

Just after 4am, the shadowy figure of Hussein is caught on CCTV returning to his father’s house near the park. He is not wearing any trousers.

Around 9pm, the sisters are reported missing by Nicole’s boyfriend Adam Stone and soon after by their concerned mother.

At 6.15pm Hussein attends Northwick Park Hospital for cuts to his right hand and is referred for more treatment.

– June 7: Just after 1am, Hussein places bets on the Mega Millions Jackpot. He does not win and all his later attempts to win lottery prizes also come to nothing.

A distraught Mr Stone and his parents go to the park to search for the sisters. Friend Nina Esmat finds Bibaa’s glasses near the picnic spot and is advised to take them to a police station.

Around 12.30pm, Mr Stone’s father discovers a knife and Nicole’s boyfriend finds the women’s bodies in bushes.

Two police officers originally deployed to help in the missing persons inquiry are diverted as they reach the park. They secure the scene which is forensically examined over days. Some of the sisters’ belongings are later discovered at a refuse centre, including blood-stained blankets and cushions.

– June 16: Hussein reports his bank card lost, having used it to buy the knives and other purchases.

– June 30: A DNA breakthrough is made. Unidentified DNA from blood at the scene produces a familial link to the defendant due to a family member whose DNA was on the national database due to a previous caution. Within an hour and a half police link Hussein to the Asda knife-buying trip and CCTV covering his father’s home.

– July 1: In the early hours officers with Tasers knock on Hussein’s mother’s door in south-east London. Hussein answers and is arrested. At the police station he says he has Asperger’s syndrome and memory trouble.

A search of his bedroom reveals a note to a demon promising to make sacrifices of women to win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot of £321 million.

Satanism ‘sits behind it, essentially, it’s an ideology as far as we can see and it’s like a cult following,’ he added.

Three jurors had wept as Mr Glasgow read a statement from Mina Smallman while Hussein shook his head.

She said in the statement: ‘On Friday 5th June 2020, Bibaa’s birthday, I knew she had planned an outdoor party with her friends.

‘Bibaa, being the responsible person that she was, had chosen to have a very small gathering in an outside place where people would be safe.

‘I know she chose that venue because the plan was that they would watch the sunset together.

‘Bibaa and Nikki loved music and regularly attended festivals.

‘The purpose of the birthday celebration was to have a mini festival which is why she planned and organised it the way she did.

‘Bibaa was a details person hence the cushions, blankets, tablemats.

‘The weather had been very unpredictable that week and what often goes through my mind is that if it had been raining on that Friday, they wouldn’t have been there and this nightmare would never have happened to our family and our precious girls would still be here.

‘I was instantly concerned when Bibaa and Nicole had failed to get in touch with their friends, Adam and family after the party.

‘This was so unusual and not like them at all.

‘On the Sunday morning I woke up stressed.

‘I phoned Adam and asked if he heard anything and he said no.

‘At 8am I phoned my friend who was ex CID and left a voicemail, my friends could hear the worry and concern in my voice so they immediately called me back and began talking us through the process of a missing persons search.

‘We had to establish who was at the party.

‘I contacted my niece, Joanne and asked her for the contact details of Bibaa and Nicole’s friends.

‘She sent out a message on Facebook and asked the ones who were at the party to call me.

‘I was aware that family and friends had launched their own search party and they were going to go back to the park where the birthday party had been held.

‘Nina told me that she had found a pair of Bibaa’s glasses.

‘At that point, I was just thinking Bibaa must have dropped her glasses but I was still very concerned that we’d had no contact from either of them.

‘I didn’t allow myself to think of the worst, in that situation, you can’t, you just go into mum mode.

‘Adam rang me and told me they had found a knife.

‘I was on the phone to my ex CID friend and he told me to tell them to get off the crime scene.

‘That was when it hit me that something very serious was happening.

‘I was sat in my living room at home when Adam called me again, he said ‘Mina I’m going to need you to sit down… We’ve found them, they’ve gone.’

‘I instantly fell to my knees and began screaming, screaming and screaming.

‘I sobbed for ages, I have no idea how long for, I lost all concept of time… I was all alone.

‘No one expects their children to die before them but to have two out of three of your children to be murdered on the same night is just incomprehensible.

‘As a person of faith, a follower of Christ, losing two of my girls in this way could have been enough to shake a person’s faith. Fortunately it didn’t.

Mina Smallman’s victim impact statement to the court had jurors in tears

‘On Friday 5th June 2020, Bibaa’s birthday, I knew she had planned an outdoor party with her friends.

‘Bibaa, being the responsible person that she was, had chosen to have a very small gathering in an outside place where people would be safe.

‘I know she chose that venue because the plan was that they would watch the sunset together.

‘Bibaa and Nikki loved music and regularly attended festivals.

‘The purpose of the birthday celebration was to have a mini festival which is why she planned and organised it the way she did.

‘Bibaa was a details person hence the cushions, blankets, tablemats.

‘I was instantly concerned when Bibaa and Nicole had failed to get in touch with their friends, Adam and family after the party.

‘This was so unusual and not like them at all.

‘On the Sunday morning I woke up stressed.

‘I phoned Adam and asked if he heard anything and he said no.

‘We had to establish who was at the party.

‘I contacted my niece, Joanne and asked her for the contact details of Bibaa and Nicole’s friends.

‘She sent out a message on Facebook and asked the ones who were at the party to call me.

‘I was aware that family and friends had launched their own search party and they were going to go back to the park where the birthday party had been held.

‘Nina told me that she had found a pair of Bibaa’s glasses.

‘At that point, I was just thinking Bibaa must have dropped her glasses but I was still very concerned that we’d had no contact from either of them.

‘I didn’t allow myself to think of the worst, in that situation, you can’t, you just go into mum mode.

‘Adam rang me and told me they had found a knife.

‘I was on the phone to my ex CID friend and he told me to tell them to get off the crime scene.

‘That was when it hit me that something very serious was happening.

‘I was sat in my living room at home when Adam called me again, he said ‘Mina I’m going to need you to sit down… We’ve found them, they’ve gone.’

‘I instantly fell to my knees and began screaming, screaming and screaming.

‘I sobbed for ages, I have no idea how long for, I lost all concept of time… I was all alone.

‘No one expects their children to die before them but to have two out of three of your children to be murdered on the same night is just incomprehensible.

‘As a person of faith, a follower of Christ, losing two of my girls in this way could have been enough to shake a person’s faith. Fortunately it didn’t.

‘You never want to imagine how the girls looked.

‘I was so worried about Adam, he can’t unsee what he saw that day.

‘We visited Adam and his family around the time of us planning the funeral. He was inconsolable.

‘When I saw him, he was skin and bone. I knew he wasn’t sleeping and I was very concerned about his welfare.

‘Our family’s grief was further compounded by the cordon officers who will now be known as despicable 1 and 2, any inner strength I had reserved had been torn away.

‘When we were told they had found somebody, the relief was huge.

‘That was because no other family would have to suffer the way we have because he wouldn’t be able to do it again.

‘I didn’t leave my house for months, I couldn’t go outside the front door.

‘Fear of the press, following the mass intrusion, I couldn’t bear people talking about our girls in such a way.

‘We now have a ring doorbell so we can vet any visitors. Journalists were knocking on our neighbours doors, it was very distressing.

‘The things we have been subjected to, the level of detail has been horrific.

‘To hear that our girls were dragged along the grass so their clothes were pulled up the placed in some kind of macabre position, it makes you think that this is a person who actually doesn’t have a heart.

‘There can be no connection with humanity.

‘I understand poor upbringing, greed, I taught boys at secondary school and out of thousands of boys I have taught, I have never come across such evil.

‘When I learned about the defendant’s pact with the demon, at that point I felt my spiritual faith take hold of the situation.

‘I am a priest in the Church of England and one of my roles was to work with people delving into the occult and clearing houses of evil presence

‘When the prosecution Counsel gave his closing speech, talking the jury through the last few minutes of our girls lives and hearing that Nikki had fought back so courageously, and even while she was dying she was being stabbed in her legs, I think that was the hardest thing to hear and I think that will disturb me for the rest of my life.

‘There is no medication that can stop this pain. I have lost my first born and my baby, they have gone.

‘The hardest thing is that when their sister, my daughter Monique, looks at me she sees them and when I look at her I see them.

‘When she came over from Holland to visit, they would all be there with us and now we will never have that family time again, those precious times stolen from us.

‘What isn’t missed is the tiniest of details that often bring the most pain.

‘I can never look at an ash tree without seeing my dead girls in my minds eye.

‘I was told that in Nikki’s hand was a little bit of ash tree branch, presumably from when she was fighting for her life from the monster who was attacking her.

‘When we are driving, at any given moment we can pass a wooded area with ash trees and I burst into uncontrollable tears in the car.

Mina Smallman said: ‘I have to say I can thank the police.

‘This is the kind of police force that I believe in and we need to work towards so that we have justice and families treated with respect.

‘Can I thank all of my family and my church family, for holding us up in prayer.

‘We remember our girls as the wonderful strong women they were.

‘We hope that some good can come out of this horrible story.’