✝️ Nasra Ismail, age 27, Somali – March 17 2004, London, England, United Kingdom 🏴💔
Nasra was a refugee from war torn Somalia, mother of wo children and addicted to crack cocaine. She lived at Dennis Handfield House, a homeless shelter at King`s Cross Road.
Nasra was killed, dismembered and dumped in a suitcase in Regents Canal by her client Daniel Archer, 53. He had picked her up at King`s Cross and took her to his brother`s flat. He paid her £20 for sex, then they smoked crack cocaine before he killed her.
After killing Nasra, the prosecution told the jury, he left her body in the flat and travelled north to Nottingham, Leeds and Wakefield, returning two weeks later. When he let himself into the flat, the smell was so bad that he was unable to handle the situation. So he left again to Bournemouth. He bought a hacksaw and a pair of rubber gloves. By now it was 22 days after the murder. Back at the flat he began cutting up her body on the living room floor, using the saw and a knife. He cut off first the arms, then the legs, then the head. Because of the smell, he put the torso into the fridge and the head and limbs in the freezer. Then he put the head and limbs in a holdall and took them to the Regent’s Canal. Weighing it down with a piece of tarmac he dropped it into the water at the Caledonian Bridge. He then went back to get the torso which he put into a suitcase and took that to the canal. On the way he found the suitcase was heavy to carry, so he caught a bus to take him. When he arrived he saw children playing, so rather than be seen, he lugged the case along to York Bridge and then threw it into the canal. Unfortunately for him it did not sink but bobbed. Alarmed he would be caught, he did not go to the flat but caught a coach to Bournemouth and stayed at his wife’s until his arrest.
The police said Archer was a violent predator who targeted vulnerable women. In the seven months before he killed Nasra he had slept with 25 prostitutes
Two of the women he had targeted gave evidence against him at court.
