On Friday 5 June 2020, sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman threw a socially distanced picnic for Bibaa’s 46th birthday in Fryent Country Park in north-west London. At sunset, Bibaa sent their mother, Mina Smallman, a photograph showing the friends celebrating. Bibaa was a senior social worker and keen cyclist whose own daughter was pregnant at the time. Nicole, 27, a photographer, was artistic, experimental and creative.
The two sisters stayed on in the park after their friends had left, dancing and just hanging out together. They were stabbed to death later that evening in a frenzied attack by an 18-year-old stranger, Danyal Hussein.
