‘You’re not planning a murder, are you?’ How student researched Bournemouth beach stabbing

Over the academic year, Nasen Saadi repeatedly asked questions about how a murderer might get away with killing. Photograph: CPS/PA

Most young people who study criminology at the University of Greenwich in south London do so in the hope of getting a job in the police or perhaps probation or the Prison Service.

But when Nasen Saadi suddenly switched courses and began to study the subject in the autumn of 2023, he did so with a different motive.