Man Sexually Assaulted, Strangled And Stamped Zara Aleenae To Death- Who Is The Killer Jordan McSweeney?

 

McSweeney was kicked out of the Great Spoon of Ilford Wetherspoons pub on June 25, just after 11pm, for harassing a female member of the bar staff.

He was shown on camera welcoming women at the pub’s entrance, enclosing them in his arms without their permission, and making an attempt to kiss them.

Although she made it obvious that she was not interested, he kept going back to the bar and bugging her, according to prosecutor Oliver Glasgow KC.

He was seen following a woman after leaving the bar. When she realized she was being followed, she went into a minimarket to get away from McSweeney.

According to testimony given in court, he waited outside for some time before entering the store and hiding behind a vegetable display until she left.

McSweeney persisted in pursuing the woman and lost her when she took a detour down a side street to avoid him.

‘That young woman had a very lucky escape since, had she been caught, by Jordan McSweeney, she would have been attacked and killed’, said Mr Glasgow.

McSweeney’s next target was a woman in the Samiz Chicken Shop in Romford Road – CCTV shows him putting his hand down his trousers and staring at her.

He began following her after just left the shop with her takeaway until he was distracted by another woman – who he spoke to briefly and put his hand between her legs before she walked away.

McSweeney began trailing another woman, who fortunately was able to enter a building on the street after realizing she was in danger.

The victim might have been saved when two passing guys stopped and stared when they saw McSweeney pursuing a woman and the scenario that was occurring.

The following 50 minutes were spent by McSweeney skulking up and down Cranbrook Road. He pursued another woman, who was forced to flee into a nearby house.

He turned to follow Ms. Aleena when he first spotted her shortly after two in the morning.

Jordan McSweeney waited for his chance to attack, and as soon as he thought no one was looking, he did just that, according to Mr. Glasgow.

At 2:15am he grabbed her neck from behind, using his other hand to cover her mouth.

He then dragged her into the driveway of 286 Cranbrook Road and took her to the ground.

Mr Glasgow said: ‘She did all she could to fight him off, but she had no idea he was behind her and she must have been terrified as the bigger and stronger Jordan McSweeney dragged her into the darkness and out of sight from any potential rescuer.’

After a struggle she was rendered unconscious. In CCTV he can be seen removing some of her clothing and going in between her spread legs.

Mr Glasgow said: ‘Jordan McSweeney stands and begins to stamp onto Zara Aleena’s body with a force that is almost unimaginable.

‘Indeed, if it were not for the indistinct CCTV footage, it would be hard to believe that anyone could treat another human being in such a violent and shocking manner.

‘Initially satisfied, he leaves her broken body appears to move across to her clothes and then leaves the driveway of 286 Cranbrook Road with something in his hands.’

He returned in a few moments and continued to stamp on her body, steadying himself against a concrete banister.

Mr Glasgow said: ‘As before, Jordan McSweeney emerges from the driveway, turns left, walks a few metres, stops, pauses, turns around and walks back to where Zara Aleena’s body is lying.

‘Once back beside her body, Jordan McSweeney bends down and appears to be looking for something or doing something to Zara Aleena.

‘He then stamps on her for a final and utterly gratuitous time before walking away without pausing to think about what he has just done.’

Ms Aleena, who was training to be a solicitor, was found with severe head injuries and struggling to breathe.

Emergency services were called at 2.44am but she died in hospital from compression to the neck and blunt force to the head.

Mr Glasgow told the court: ‘At the time she was attacked, Zara Aleena was only minutes from her front door and she had every right to feel safe on the street, streets where she lived and which she knew well, but once she had become a target for this defendant that right was taken from her in a terrifying and ruthless manner, and, quite simply, she stood no chance of survival.’

Police identified McSweeney from bloody fingerprints at the scene and chilling CCTV footage which was played in court.

Officers traced him to a caravan on a fairground in the nearby Valentines Park where he was arrested the next day.

While in custody, McSweeney was violent towards officers after refusing to answer questions.

The court was told the prolific thief and burglar, drug dealer and bare knuckle fighter who had a history of violence towards ex-partners.

He had been released from prison on licence on June 17 just nine days before the murder.

In that time, his licence had been revoked after he failed to attend any meeting with probation workers.

Last month, McSweeney, 29, of Dagenham, Essex, pleaded guilty to Ms Aleena’s murder and sexual assault.

On Wednesday, he refused to come up from the cells at the Old Bailey to be sentenced saying he did not want to watch footage of what he had done.

In a televised sentencing on Wednesday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb jailed him in his absence for life with a minimum term of 38 years.

She said: ‘The defendant had the physical advantages of strength and surprise.

‘In everything else, she was better than him.

‘She was talented, spirited, intelligent and kind. Spending the evening with her friend she had done nothing wrong, taken no mis-steps, shown no lack of sense.

‘She was simply a happy, healthy woman living her life in what most Londoners think of as the best city in the world.’

McSweeney’s decision not to come to court to face justice showed he had ‘no spine whatsoever’, she added.

Speaking outside court, Ms Aleena’s aunt Farah Naz said: ‘Today’s sentencing protects the public from a man who cannot and must not live freely in the world.

‘His extreme indifference towards Zara’s life and to the law makes him a very dangerous man. We have some retribution but no peace.

There are still unanswered questions, lessons to be learned, and adjustments to be made.

“Zara’s life was violently and senselessly crushed.” We continue to deal with the misery that Zara was made to through every day.

We lost her and more, Ms. Naz stated in court. A family is slain every time a person is killed. Additionally, when a person is killed, humanity is also killed.

Everything she was, everything she had worked so hard to achieve, and every aspiration were all shattered by someone else’s sense of entitlement who she didn’t even know.

She was only going home on foot.

Ms Aleena’s elderly grandmother Rashda Parveen sobbed as she read out her victim statement in court, saying she hoped the killer ‘would never find peace’.

Mr Whellams said: ‘The first thing that you get from this particular case is Sweeney’s determination, his focus. He is one track, he’s just going to follow females.

Before attacking Zara, we witness him following at least two females. He is also persistent. He isn’t being put off, which worries me.

These women become aware of his attention and choose to avoid him by entering stores, running down streets, and running past their own addresses.

However, he is unaffected. He then moves on to a different person before moving on to Zara.

After being released from prison on June 17, McSweeney had his license revoked because he had neglected to attend his probation meetings.

Police went to his family address around a day before the murder but discovered he was not there.

Who Is The Killer Jordan McSweeney

 

 

The ex-girlfriend of the murderer revealed that she endured four years of violence and controlling behaviour at his hands before summoning up the courage to leave him for good.

But Samantha Bryan, 30, now regrets not pressing assault charges against the ‘wannabe gangster’ who went on to kill aspiring lawyer Zara Aleena earlier this year.

Ms Bryan told MailOnline that McSweeney once stamped on her so badly, it left an imprint of his trainer on her face – just as he did to Ms Aleena, who suffered fatal head injuries.

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Describing going to the police she said: ‘I gave them a statement, telling them just what he’d done, but I dropped the charges. I just couldn’t go through with it. At the time, my thinking was that I’d at last got rid of him from my life after four horrible years and I was still scared he – or one of his acolytes – would seek some sort of vengeance.

‘Knowing what he did to the poor woman in Ilford, I wish I had gone ahead with it. Jordan is nothing more than a wannabe gangster with no respect whatsoever for women. I hope he’s locked up for the rest of his life – no woman is safe around him.’

McSweeney would also punch, kick and bite her and once threw her out into the street after snatching her phone, forcing her to borrow a mobile from a homeless man so she could call her mother to collect her.

And Ms Bryan, who became pregnant by McSweeney, also told how he would cynically cuddle up to her at night – only in order to hide her wounds from his aunt when the young couple stayed with her.

He can only be defined as a menace to women, the top officer stated. His overall attitude, the way he is, how focused he is, and how unconcerned he is.

“We really can’t let someone like him out on the streets.” I think women will always be dangerous.

Even though McSweeney had a long history of minor crimes, there were warning signs before to the murderous night.

But a CCTV capture from earlier in the evening revealed he had pursued two other ladies after leaving a bar while inebriated and maybe drugged.

Before he spotted a lone woman, the video showed him lurching in the road and nearly being hit by a car.