"He seems to have wanted to know what it would be like to take life," said Sarah Jones KC during the trial of Nasen Saadi, who is accused of a brutal attack that left one woman dead and another seriously injured.
"With purpose, slowly, stealthily and quietly; when he thought no-one would observe him, he hovered at the edges of the promenade, then stepped on to the sand," detailed the prosecutor about the moment Saadi attacked the women on Bournemouth beach.
Ms Jones suggested the defendant may have wanted to feel powerful or instill fear in others, saying, "Perhaps he just couldn't bear to see people engaged in a happy normal social interaction and he decided to lash out, to hurt, to butcher."
In a heartbreaking video played in court, Leanne Miles described how she pleaded for her life, stating, "I just kept thinking of my children and I hope my words got through to him."
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