A teenager has pleaded not guilty to the murder of two sisters in Fryent Country Park in an unprovoked and random attack.

Danyal Hussein, 19, allegedly stabbed Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, multiple times in the early hours of Saturday June 6 last year.

Social worker Ms Henry, aged 27 from Brent, was celebrating her birthday at the park in Wembley with her friends and sister Ms Smallman.

People gradually left throughout the evening and by around 12.30am only the sisters remained. Officers believe they were murdered within the next couple of hours.

Their bodies were found in the park the next day.

Hussein, of Guy Barnett Grove, Blackheath, south-east London, was arrested at his home on July 1 and charged with double murder and possessing a knife.

Harrow Times: A court artist sketch of 18-year-old Danyal Hussein appearing in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court on July 2 (Photo: PA)A court artist sketch of 18-year-old Danyal Hussein appearing in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court on July 2 (Photo: PA)

At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Thursday attended by members of the victims’ family, Hussein pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Hussein, who is in custody, will go on trial before Mrs Justice Whipple from June 7.

The Old Bailey trial is due to go on for up to three weeks.