London park stabbings: boyfriend found sisters’ bodies as police failed to ‘deploy sooner’

Trial told of police use of DNA and CCTV to track accused after discovery of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman at park

The boyfriend of one of two sisters, both stabbed to death last year, would not have discovered their bodies if police had searched the London area sooner, a senior investigating officer told the trial of the teenager accused of the murders.

Det Ch Insp Simon Harding led the investigation into the killing of Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, in Fryent Country Park, north London, in 2020. He gave evidence on Wednesday at the trial of the man charged, Danyal Hussein.