Sabina Nessa's family's plea as murderer aims for jail transfer

Sabina Nessa's slayer Koci Selamaj told his dada helium wants to alert location to Albania to service his sentence, but needs to decorativeness immoderate aesculapian attraction successful the UK first

The slayer of Sabina Nessa is hoping to instrumentality to his autochthonal Albania, to the fury of his victim’s family.

Koci Selamaj told his dada helium wants to alert location to service his sentence, which could beryllium imaginable owed to a caller woody betwixt governments. Sexual predator Selamaj was jailed for astatine slightest 36 years for murdering superior schoolhouse teacher Sabina, 28, successful a London parkland successful September 2021.

He is successful high-security psychiatric infirmary Broadmoor. His dada Bashkim, 75, says his lad told him helium wants a transportation but needs to decorativeness immoderate medical treatment first. He says the slayer told him: “I privation to travel location but I inactive americium not well, I request further treatment. I person to deliberation astir erstwhile I volition afloat retrieve from the problems I have.”

Britain has struck a woody with Albanian premier Edi Rama to let immoderate jailed convicts to decorativeness their sentences backmost home. But contiguous Sabina’s sister Jebina Islam, 33, says “coward” Selamaj should beryllium forced to service his clip successful a UK jail.

She told us: “He did the transgression present and truthful helium should service his full condemnation here. I couldn’t attraction little if his household wants him backmost successful Albania, oregon helium wants to service his clip determination to beryllium person to them and marque it easier for himself – helium killed my sister.”

Selamaj, 36 astatine the time, refused to crook up for his sentencing astatine the Old Bailey successful 2022 to perceive the judge’s damning comments and look Sabina’s heartbroken family. Jebina said: “It’s similar he’s inactive successful power. He wants an easier, reduced sentence, it’s arsenic elemental arsenic that. The families should beryllium prioritised, not this animal.”

On the time of Sabina’s murder, Selamaj, who was surviving successful Eastbourne, Sussex, booked into the town’s Grand Hotel, wherever his estranged woman worked. He tried to transportation his woman to person enactment with him, but she rejected him.

He drove 70 miles to London and hid successful bushes successful a parkland successful Kidbrooke, South East London, waiting for a random target. Sabina was walking done the parkland to conscionable a person astatine a pub connected September 17.

CCTV showed Selamaj smashing a alloy postulation motion implicit Sabina’s head. She was deed 34 times earlier being dragged into agelong writer wherever Selamaj removed her tights and underwear and strangled her.

Her execution sparked nationalist outrage and raised further concerns astir women’s information pursuing the sidesplitting of Sarah Everard months earlier. Garage idiosyncratic Selamaj has ne'er offered an mentation for wherefore helium launched the ferocious attack.

After 3 years of begging his lad to spot him, Bashkim yet had a situation showdown successful the unafraid portion successful Berkshire successful December. Revealing details of their meeting, helium said of his son: “He was mislaid successful his world. Most of the clip his hands were shaking owed to his wellness problems.

“It was hard for maine but I asked him wherefore helium killed an guiltless woman. Koci said to me, ‘I bash not retrieve thing astatine each astir what I person done and wherefore I did’. Then helium enactment his caput down, not wishing to speech immoderate further.”

Last twelvemonth Selamaj had his beingness condemnation extended for stabbing a situation guard. He attacked 2 officers with breached porcelain aft smashing his compartment toilet. One defender was wounded successful the genu and limb successful the battle astatine HMP Frankland, Co Durham, successful 2023. A workfellow who ran to assistance was punched successful the face.

Selamaj seemingly told his dad: “In my caput I had the thought they came to termination me. What I did was to support myself. Now that my wellness is getting amended I realise what I did was wrong. That’s wherefore I admitted guilt successful court.” The Ministry of Justice was contacted for comment.