The teenage apprentice of E A [living god] Koetting who murdered two sisters in a London park in a bid to win the lottery, has been given two concurrent 35-year jail sentences at the Old Bailey.
Danyal Hussein, 19, killed Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman in a random attack, which he believed would act as a “sacrifice” to “the mighty king Lucifuge Rofocale.”
Hussein stabbed Henry eight times and Smallman 28 times as she fought back, causing Hussein to cut his right hand with the 12cm knife. He then dragged their bodies 75 metres away into a wooded area where they lay undiscovered for 36 hours.
They were found by Smallman’s boyfriend a day after they were reported missing to police.
Police traced DNA gathered from the knife left at the crime scene back to Hussein, they raided his family home in Blackheath, south-east London. They found a contract Hussein believed he had drawn up with a demon – signed in blood – pledging to “perform a minimum of six sacrifices every six months for as long as I am free and physically capable” in exchange for winning the Mega Millions Super Jackpot.
Searches on Hussein’s computer found he had been researching far-right extremism through groups associated with Koetting. At Hussein’s trial earlier this year, it was revealed he made a pact agreeing to kill the sisters in exchange for power and wealth.
Parts of the pledge appeared to come from Koetting’s work, but he was able to continue promoting his work, including books, to more than 200,000 followers on Facebook and YouTube.
Handing out the 35-year minimum term on Thursday, Mrs Justice Whipple told Hussein: “You committed these vicious attacks. You did it to kill. You did it for money and a misguided pursuit of power.
“This was a calculated and deliberate course of conduct, planned and carried out precisely. Bizarre though the pact with the devil may appear to others, this was your belief system, your own commitment to the murder of innocent women. No family should have to endure this,” Whipple said.
Whipple said she was unable to hand out a whole-life sentence because Hussein was under 21. She said the usual minimum term would be 37 years for crimes of this severity, but that she had reduced it because of Hussein’s age – he had only turned eighteen three weeks before committing the crime – and his autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, which she said could “make you a person who could struggle in prison more than others”.
She decided, however, not to consider evidence of an undiagnosed personality disorder or psychopathy identified in a psychiatric report as a mitigating factor or to delay sentencing. At the same time, these were further examined because Hussein had refused to comply with the evaluation.
Whipple said he would only become eligible for release after a minimum of 35 years and that this would only happen “if at that point you are no longer a danger to the public”.
Hussein had declined to give evidence in his trial, claiming he was not responsible for the killings or for writing the pact.
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