By James Simons-
A teenager who butchered two sisters after believing he made a chilling contract with a demon to win the lottery,has been jailed for at least 35 years.
Hussein, who had a dysfunctional upbringing in South London, was referred referred to the government’s counter-extremism programme Prevent after he was found to be accessing far-right propaganda on school computers.
He was subsequentlydischarged from the de-radicalisation programme three years later, but after the murders police discovered he had been entering online Satanic forums and researching right-wing ideology.
Hussein, 19, has never revealed his motive, but detectives found a hand-written contract at his home, with “the mighty king Lucifuge Rofocale” in which he promised to sacrifice women in return for a big lottery win. Hussein had signed his name in his own blood.
In June last year, during a COVID lockdown, he came across his victims in Fryent Country Park in Wembley, North London. The sisters had stayed on after dark playing music and dancing when their party guests had left.
The evil brute stabbed sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman as they danced alone in a park late at night, after a lockdown party with friends in June 2020 to celebrate Bibaa’s 46th birthday.
Hussein stabbed Nicole 28 times and Bibaa eight times before fleeing the scene, though he cut himself during the attack and his DNA and CCTV footage led police to him a month later.
Develish Contract
In the ‘contract’ detectives found in his bedroom Hussein had promised to “perform a minimum of six sacrifices every six months for as long as I am free and physically capable” and said he would “sacrifice only women”.
In return he would win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot lottery and “receive fruitful rewards” including “wealth and power.” In the 10 days after the murders Hussein spent £160 on lottery tickets.
Speaking after the sentencing at the Old Bailey their mother, Mina Smallman, said justice had been done for her “beautiful girls” but she vowed to stop Hussein ever being released from prison.
Hussein denied murder, but did not give evidence and was convicted after a trial in July, with his sentence postponed for psychiatric reports.
Bodies of Bibaa Henry (left) and Nicole Smallman were found intertwined in undergrowth HENRY/SMALLMAN Family
Appearing for sentencing today via video link from Belmarsh jail for “COVID reasons”, Mrs Justice Whipple sentenced him to life in prison with a minimum term of 35 years.
She told Hussein: “You had found these two women. You were a stranger to them. You surprised them, you terrified them and you killed them”.
The judge said the lives of his victims’ loved ones had been “shattered” and referred to a victim impact statement by the sisters’ mother who described being “haunted” by the knowledge of how her children suffered.
On the pact with the devil, the judge said: “I am sure you performed these murders as part of that bargain for wealth and power.”
As “bizarre” as the pact seemed, it was part of his belief system, she added.
Hussein had ‘shattered’ the lives of his victims’ loved ones, the judge said.
Speaking outside court, the sisters’ mother Mina Smallman said justice had been done for her “beautiful girls”.
On their killer, she said: “He’s just an obnoxious human being. He is a broken human being who – if he had not been caught – four other families may have been suffering what we have.”