A TikTok influencer murdered her mom’s younger lover who had blackmailed her with a intercourse tape, a courtroom has been informed.
Saqib Hussain and his pal Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, each 21, had been killed when their Skoda crashed right into a tree after 23-year-old Mahek Bukhari hatched a plot with others to “set a trap”, prosecutors stated.
The automobile was “virtually split in two” by the impression earlier than it caught on fireplace simply after midnight on 11 February this 12 months.
Just earlier than he died, front-seat passenger Mr Hussain made a panicked 999 name to police claiming Mr Ijazuddin’s silver Skoda Fabia was being “blocked in” and rammed by balaclava-wearing assailants who had been following them in two automobiles.
In a recording of the decision performed to Leicester Crown Court, he stated: “They’re trying to ram us off the road. Please, I’m begging you, I’m going to die.”
He additionally stated “Oh my God”, earlier than there was a scream and the decision minimize off abruptly on the sound of an impression.
Police footage from officers attending the scene, at about 1.35am, confirmed the Skoda in flames within the central reservation of the A46 twin carriageway, by the Six Hills junction close to Leicester.
The two males, from Banbury in Oxfordshire, had been pals since faculty, with Mr Ijazuddin agreeing to drive his pal to Leicester that evening – described as a “fatal mistake that cost him his life” by prosecutors in courtroom.
Collingwood Thompson KC, prosecuting, stated Mr Hussain’s 999 name was a key indicator that the crash “was not simply a tragic road traffic accident but a deliberate murder”.
After denying the lads’s murders, Ansreen Bukhari and her daughter Mahek Bukhari, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, are going through trial together with six others.
The courtroom heard Mr Hussain’s household later informed detectives he was having a three-year affair with 45-year-old Ansreen Bukhari, who was married with youngsters.
Mr Hussain had recorded “sexually explicit” materials, the prosecutor stated, with movies and photographs of the couple later discovered on Mr Hussain’s Instagram account.
When Mrs Bukhari tried to finish the connection in January towards Mr Hussain’s needs, he “became increasingly obsessive, professing his love for her”, Mr Thompson stated.
After Mrs Bukhari wouldn’t return his calls, Mr Thompson stated Mr Hussain’s anger “manifested itself in an attempt to blackmail Ansreen Bukhari in order to persuade her to contact him” and allegedly threatened to ship the sexually specific materials to her husband and son except she agreed to talk to him.
Mrs Bukhari confided in her daughter in regards to the alleged blackmail try, with Mr Thompson telling jurors that it set out a doable motive to “silence” Mr Hussain.
Mahek Bukhari, often called Maya, had 126,000 followers on TikTok and 43,000 on Instagram earlier than her arrest, often posting updates on her purses, garments and make-up.
On 4 January she is alleged to have messaged her mom saying: “I’ll soon get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.”
The courtroom heard she would later textual content her mom: “Leave it to me.”
The girls appeared within the dock alongside co-accused Rekan Karwan, 28, of Leicester, and Raees Jamal, 22, of Loughborough, who’re each alleged to have recruited others, together with Natasha Akhtar, 22, of Birmingham, who owned one of many automobiles concerned within the alleged pursuit.
Also within the dock are Sanaf Gulammustafa, 22, Ameer Jamal, 27, and Mohammed Patel, 20, all from Leicester.
The three girls and 5 males deny two counts of homicide and two various costs of manslaughter. The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”