Sorry to repeat anything already said, but I dropped off the thread to await the outcome of the 2nd male arrested as I felt that the police were going through the motions and sadly it looks to be the case.
This means the likely hood that this is a stranger attack is now very real, the man in the CCTV, imo, seems to more then just a person of interest, his movements are suspicious and I genuinely think the police need to i.d that man asap.
Meanwhile, knowing there is a murderer out there frightens me, but question is now, what has motivated this? Mental health, a grudge [If he was known to Sabina] or just a psychopath... The latter is a terrifying prospect
IMO whether it is likely to be random depends on whether the CCTV shows, as the Telegraph claimed (seemingly in a leak and not official), Sabina being attacked by someone directly after leaving her flat. I see what you mean, this may just be a video of a random guy turning things over in his hands and looking around outside her flat but there being other video evidence was suggested.
The police haven’t confirmed that, but if Sabina was accosted on her doorstep, then to me, the balance tips back in favour of her knowing her killer again somehow, rather than being a random victim, because why target that address and her specifically rather than a random girl walking through a local park? — much more likely to be caught and not the “crime of opportunity” that some attacks on women on their own can sadly be.
However, for some reason the person in the CCTV, if it exists, attacking Sabina is not a connection the Police have been able to find or nail down. So I am thinking the idea of a stalker has some merit to it. If this is someone for whom Sabina was important, but he was not important to her, he won’t be on the police radar, because friends & family won’t know him etc, but he will have taken some unusual interest in Sabina.
I would expect there to be some connection someone could find but also then again, stalkers have been known to fixate on people they’ve met only briefly or barely know at all. An acquaintance of mine was stalked by someone she met once or twice when he provided her with goods & services (not to be too specific) and briefly interacted with. She couldn’t remember him really at all but due to her being a customer, he had all of her details. Quite terrifying…
The other reason in favour of it being someone she somewhat knew is the major coincidence of it being the same night as a first date with a potential new boyfriend. I don’t see any social media for Sabina but if (pure speculation) she wrote “Date Night” on a private Instagram someone was looking at or something like that, that could have triggered someone to act.