08-05-2025
Countdown to murder: Heartbreaking final hours of sisters stabbed to death in park - and a sickening humiliation by police officers
A new TV documentary about the murder of two sisters has pieced together their final hours and their mother's grief after they died in the 'worst of circumstances'.
Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were stabbed while celebrating the latter's birthday at Fryent Country Park in Wembley, North West London, in June 2020.
Their killer Danyal Hussein was jailed at the Old Bailey in October 2021 aged 19 for a minimum of 35 years for savagely murdering them as part of a Satanic blood pact.
They were discovered murdered by Ms Smallman's boyfriend – but, in a sickening twist, the grieving family faced a double blow when it emerged two police officers had taken selfies with their dead bodies and shared them in two WhatsApp groups.
Metropolitan Police constables Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were then jailed for two years and nine months in December 2021 after admitting misconduct in public office.
Now, a new Sky series 'Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park' is set to air on Sunday at 9pm and has unravelled the story behind their killings and the police misconduct.
A trailer features two short clips of their mother Mina Smallman speaking, as she is firstly heard saying: 'Bibaa and Nicole, my girls, they planned a picnic together.'
In reference to the officers sharing photographs of the sisters, she adds: 'I've lost two of my daughters in the worst of circumstances. What on earth could be worse?'
The former teacher and priest has previously said that a police call handler never got back to her after she reported her daughters as missing. She has also claimed that she thought a search was not initially launched by police because of their ethnicity.
The documentary also hears from the small group of family and friends at the centre of the search to find the sisters, and insights from murder detectives in the case.
Quotes in the trailer also included 'no one could have expected what was going to happen'; 'the police haven't turned up'; 'you should never be the person to find the one you love dead when you've reported them missing'; and 'it was harrowing'.
The programme looks at how a group of friends had met in the park as pandemic lockdown rules began to ease, as they celebrated Ms Henry's birthday.
Some members of the group gradually headed home as darkness fell, but the two sisters stayed in the park and danced into the night. They did not return home.
In the early hours of June 6, 2020, Hussein had stalked his victims. He later stabbed Ms Henry eight times, before he slashed Ms Smallman 28 times as she fought back.
He then dragged them into bushes where they lay undiscovered for 36 hours.
On the evening of June 6, the sisters' worried loved ones reported them missing, but officers were not deployed to the park until the next day.
Before they arrived, Ms Smallman's boyfriend Adam Stone found the bodies.
Officers then carried out a search and identified the DNA of an unknown male from blood on the knife, bodies and surrounding scene.
Then on June 30, a DNA familial link was made to Hussein's father, who had a past caution.
Within an hour-and-a-half, Hussein was identified on CCTV buying knives in Asda and returning home after the murders.
Police later uncovered a handwritten pledge to a demonic entity called 'King Lucifuge Rofocale' to kill six women every six months, which was signed in blood.
However – in a shocking development - the women's bodies had been photographed and shared on WhatsApp by two police officers.
The Old Bailey heard that Jaffer and Lewis, neither of whom was wearing forensic protection, were tasked with protecting the scene.
While at the scene Jaffer took four pictures of the bodies in situ and Lewis took two, and superimposed his face on a third to create a 'selfie-style' picture.
The court heard that the behaviour of the officers allowed Hussein to put forward the false defence that incriminating DNA evidence could have been contaminated.
A large blue holdall 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
The Old Bailey was also told that Hussein had embarked on a 'campaign of vengeance' against random women in a failed bid to win the Mega Millions Super Jackpot lottery prize of £321million.
Before the killings, Hussein communicated with others about demons and love potions, and carried out online research about the far-right and Norse mythology.
Hussein declined to give evidence in his trial, claiming he was not responsible for the killings or for writing the pact.
But he was found guilty of two counts of murder and possession of a knife.
Former Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick issued a public apology in 2021 on behalf of the force to the family.
