A sick and senseless London murder finally comes to trial (thanks, Chiraag):

A fan of US rapper Eminem has admitted murdering the woman who idolised him and stuffing her in a suitcase. Christopher Duncan, 21, had the same tattoos as the rap star and had been performing his songs at a karaoke bar in London on the night of 13 May 2004.

Law student Jagdip Najran, 26, who had met him only two weeks before, left the bar with him, only to be battered over the head with an iron bat at his flat… Najran was in her final year at London Metropolitan University… [Link]

… Najran… told a friend her heart was “aflutter” at seeing him at a karaoke night. [Link]

… the couple slept together before Duncan, high on a cocktail of LSD, ecstasy and cocaine, set about her with a metal baseball bat, shattering her skull. He then stuffed her body into a suitcase because he “could not bear to look at her”… Duncan said he flipped after the “beautiful and clever” law student smiled at him…

Detectives who searched the killer’s flat in Bethnal Green discovered violent videos, knives, samurai swords and ninja weapons. A martial arts expert, Duncan also wrote his own songs…

Jagdip, 26, had seen Duncan performing at a pub a few weeks earlier and had gone back to the bar a second time on May 13 last year… Duncan… was born in Glasgow but moved to London at a young age… [Link]

He then forced the body of 5’2” tall Ms Najran, who he had known for a month, into a large suitcase before fleeing his east London flat to his mother’s flat nearby. Dumping the body in a suitcase resembles the video of Eminem’s greatest hit ‘Stan’, who stuffs his girlfriend into the boot of a car after murdering her. Ms Najran, 26, was still alive although unconscious when he hid the body and would have taken more than an hour to bleed to death…

“One neighbour who lived above the flat said she was awoken by four or five loud banging noises. She described the banging as extreme but did not hear any shouting or screaming. It sounded to her as if someone had been throw against the wall…”

After the killing fled to his mother’s flat, where he confessed. Mr Laidlaw said: “He said ‘I think I have killed a girl…’ His mother agreed to stand by him and hid his blood soaked clothes, but changed her mind when her son returned to his flat in the same street…. his family arranged for Duncan to hand himself in and he was arrested on May 17, two days after his twentieth birthday.

Police found violent videos, knives, a plank of wood with a spike in it and rice threshers when they searched his home. Duncan was convicted of possessing a samurai sword in 2001 and has four theft convictions and one burglary conviction. [Link]

… Ms Najran, who hoped to become a professional singer and had met Duncan at a karaoke night weeks before, told a friend she was excited at the thought of seeing him perform… “One of the tragic features of this case is the terrible misjudgement she made of him.” In fact Duncan was a petty criminal who drank and took drugs, and was said by doctors to have a personality disorder. [Link]

Attacking a 5’2” woman from behind, unprovoked. After all those pathetic martial arts fantasies, how utterly manly.

Eminem, that nasal Detroit export:

B— I’ma kill you!
You don’t wanna f— with me
Girls leave — you ain’t nuttin’ but a slut to me
B— I’ma kill you…
— ‘Kill You’

Don’t you get it b—, no one can hear you?
Now shut the f— up and get what’s comin’ to you…
Now bleed! B— bleed!
Bleed! B— bleed! Bleed!
— ‘Kim’

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