A student has been found guilty of murdering personal trainer Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach.
Nasen Saadi, 20, stabbed 34-year-old Ms Gray to death at Durley Chine Beach, West Undercliff Promenade, on May 24. He had also been accused of the attempted murder of Leanne Miles at the same location.
Winchester Crown Court was told that the two women were attacked as they sat chatting on the beach late in the evening.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of a man walking along the seafront before attacking the pair.
Saadi, who was studying criminology and criminal psychology at Greenwich University, admitted to staying in Bournemouth at the time of the attack but denied being the person shown on the CCTV.
He told police that he could not remember that period of time and said he might have ‘blacked out’, that his arrest had been a case of ‘mistaken identity’ and he had ‘no reason to attack someone for no reason’.
The trial heard that Saadi was interested in true crime, horror movies and knives which he bought on the internet and had called himself ‘Ninja killer’ for his username on Snapchat.
Home Office pathologist Dr Basil Purdue told the court that Ms Gray died as a result of 10 knife wounds including one to the heart while Ms Miles suffered 20 knife injuries.
The court also heard that the defendant has pleaded guilty to failing to provide his mobile phone pin code to police.
