‘Parenting is not a tickbox exercise’: Echoes of Adolescence in Bournemouth beach murder
The case of Nasen Saadi
On Friday, 21-year-old Nasen Saadi was jailed for life for the murder of Amie Grey, 34, and the attempted murder of her friend Leanne Miles, 39, on a deserted beach in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England in May 2024.
In his mitigation speech Saadi’s barrister appeared to criticise the killer’s mother and father, when he said: “Parenting is not a tickbox exercise.”
In today’s Substack I discuss the strong echoes of the plotline in the hit Netflix series Adolescence, and the wider issue of online influencing of killers.
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