Video shows murderous London student lying to detectives about killing woman on beach

Newly released interview footage shows how a London student lied to detectives about murdering a woman on Bournemouth beach.

Naseen Saadi, 20, was sentenced on Friday 28th March for stabbing Amie Gray to death, and attempting to murder Leanne Miles.

Saadi was deeply interested in murder, and according to the trial’s presiding judge, has a “grievance” against women.

He will spend at least 39 years in prison.

Since his conviction, the Crown Prosecution Service has released footage from one of Saadi’s interviews with detectives. In it, he can be seen lying to his interviewers, saying he had “no reason” to kill Amie, and attempting to make up excuses as to why someone with his description, wearing his clothing was seen at the scene.

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At the beginning of the interview, an unidentified detective tells Saadi that there are “lots of things here that indicate that you are the person responsible”.

Wearing a grey jumper, and crossing his arms, Saadi responded: “I’m not responsible, and I have no reason to attack someone for no reason.”

After then replying “no comment” to the next question, the now-convicted killer added: “I wouldn’t attack someone for no reason.”

The detective then mentioned Saadi’s interest in murder, with the former criminology student saying: “That’s related to my university degree.”

This was something widely reported on during his trial. It was revealed how Saadi would ask his lecturers about committing murder, even asking Dr Lisa-Maria Reiss, about “how to get away with murder”. She explained that she felt this question was unusual so asked the criminology student: “You’re not planning a murder are you?”

However, Saadi’s interest in killing continued outside of the classroom as police officers found he had researched the Milly Dowler and Brianna Ghey murders, as well as knives, which he later purchased.

Continuing with the interview, the detective asked Saadi if he believed they had covered everything. He replied by saying he had been “wrongly accused” and that it was a case of “mistaken identity”.

Adding: “Mistakes can happen and I’m just not responsible.”

Soon after, the 20-year-old told detectives: “I think just because someone is wearing the same clothes, it’s circumstantial.”

However, when the detective enquired where Saadi’s clothing from the night of the murder was, he refused to give him an answer.

A second detective then told Saadi that finding out where he was on the night of the murder was “a very quick enquiry”. According to what was said at the trial, this was due to the amount of CCTV evidence held by the police showing the murderer’s movements.

“Well I left Bournemouth on the 25th at 9’o clock,” Saadi responded, with the same detective confirming that they knew this but that the police want to know where he was the previous night between 11 and 12pm.

This is when the first detective explained that it’s clear Saadi was the “male on the beach that night” who committed the attack, which left Amie Gray dead and Leanne Miles injured.

Saadi, scratching his head, replied: “Beaches are like popular places, on the CCTV you showed me there were many people walking, it’s not just one person.”

Then when asked about where he was on the 24th and 25th May, ignoring the first part of the question, he told the interviewers that he was “back home on the 25th” but that he couldn’t remember parts of the dates he was asked about.

The interview comes to a conclusion when the officer lists Saadi’s “memories” from that night, and talks the CCTV footage showing where he’d been on the day of the murder, with him then telling the former student “to fill in those other blanks”.

There’s a long pause, with the detective saying: “You can’t, can you?”, to which Saadi shakes his head.

“And the reason you can’t fill the blanks is because you are the male we’ve just seen on that CCTV that’s been identified as being responsible for what happened to Leanne, and to Amie.”

When asked if he’d like to comment on that, Saadi responded “no” before the interview recording is swiftly finished.

Featured image via CPS