A person accused of murdering a girl in a knife assault on Bournemouth seaside scoped out the world within the days earlier than the assault, a trial has heard.

On Wednesday, jury members have been proven CCTV footage which the prosecution claimed to point out Nasen Saadi’s actions within the days earlier than the deadly assault on 34-year-old Amie Grey.

Sarah Jones KC, for the prosecution, advised the trial they confirmed Saadi going for night walks alongside Bournemouth promenade, which she instructed have been “recces” for the assault.

Saadi, 20, from Croydon, south London, denies Ms Grey’s homicide and the tried homicide of Leanne Miles at Durley Chine Seashore, Bournemouth, on 24 Could.

The courtroom heard Saadi initially booked right into a Travelodge lodge in Bournemouth on 21 Could earlier than shifting to the close by Silver How lodge on 23 Could.

On the day of the assault, the person within the CCTV footage, who the prosecution alleged to be Saadi, is proven shopping for moist wipes and nail clippers at a Superdrug retailer in Bournemouth city centre earlier than additionally going for a stroll alongside the seafront to purchase an ice cream within the afternoon.

Later CCTV footage confirmed Ms Miles arriving at Durley Chine at 9.10pm adopted by Ms Grey at 9.47pm.

The prosecution claims Saadi is then proven within the footage to go away his lodge at 10.43pm, stroll to the seafront after which promenade in the direction of Durley Chine.

Photographs confirmed a person – who the prosecution claims was “loitering” – approaching the 2 victims sitting on the seaside subsequent to a small hearth at 11.38pm.

A person might be seen attacking the 2 girls and operating in the direction of one in every of them, who flees.

The trial heard Ms Grey died after being stabbed a number of instances, together with one wound inflicted with “extreme power” by way of her chest.

House Workplace pathologist Dr Basil Purdue advised Winchester Crown Court docket on Wednesday that Ms Grey suffered a complete of 10 knife wounds.

They included an damage to the bodily coach’s left higher arm and a critical wound which might have required “extreme power” to undergo the breastbone.

Dr Purdue mentioned she additionally suffered cuts which could have been triggered as she held up her arms to defend herself.

The pathologist added that Ms Miles, now aged 39, suffered 20 knife accidents primarily to her again, a collapsed lung and an damage to her liver.

He estimated the accidents have been attributable to a knife with a blade of between 5cm and 7cm lengthy with “a single sharp edge”.

Jurors have been beforehand advised by the prosecution that Saadi was a pupil at Greenwich College in London, and had requested lecturers questions on self-defence for homicide and the way lengthy DNA stays behind.

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Saadi, who has pleaded responsible to failing to offer his cell phone code to police, denies homicide and tried homicide.

The trial continues.