Chilling second killer wheels suitcase containing murdered spouse’s physique

This is the harrowing moment a killer chef wheels a suitcase containing the body of the wife he murdered while also carrying their young child.

Aminan Rahman faces life in jail after strangling his wife Suma Begum in front of their children and her TikTok lover and then dumping her body in the Thames.

Now police have released footage of the chilling build-up to how he disposed of Ms Begum’s body while accompanied by their young son, after he was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey. 

Rahman, 47, throttled his 24-year-old wife with her scarf at a flat in Docklands, east London, on the night of April 29, 2023 – attacking her while video-calling her boyfriend Shahin Miah, also 24.

Ms Begum’s lifeless body could be seen in the video call as Rahman shouted at Mr Miah: ‘Because of you this has happened.’

She could have been still alive when Rahman crammed her body into the case and threw her body into the River Lea, which runs through east London to the Thames.

Rahman denied murder and assault on Ms Begum, but was unanimously convicted by an Old Bailey jury today.

Her body was found ten days after the killing by a mudlarker after washing up by the side of the Thames.

Ms Begum had moved to the UK in 2020 after marrying Rahman in an arranged marriage over the phone.

Their children were aged two and four months old when she was murdered.

Rahman, who admitted preventing an unlawful burial by disposing of her body, was today remanded in custody by Mr Justice Bennathan ahead of sentencing on a later date not yet fixed.

The killer, from Bangladesh, first came to the UK 20 years ago and worked as a chef at an Indian restaurant.

Mr Miah was living in Abu Dhabi when he received a video call from Rahman, who was with Ms Begum.

Rahman tried to get the couple to refer to each other as ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ after feeling insulted by them referring to him as ‘dad’ and ‘old man’ due to his age.

A sobbing Mr Miah told the court during the trial: ‘Aminan was swearing at me and he was telling me to call her my mum.

‘Suma was on the bed, [her child] was sitting close to her and you can see in the video he was showing me Suma and telling to me Suma do not want you.

‘Suma then put her hands on her head and he then bring [her child] close to her and put his hand on [the child’s] head, he was telling Suma, “I will kill everybody”.

‘He was shouting, ‘If you don’t calls Suma your mum now, I will kill her now. I called Suma my mum and I told him to leave her alone, don’t do anything to her.’

‘Suma wanted to run away and to call the police. She did not call me “dad” and that’s when he grabbed her throat.’

She screamed and the video froze before the line cut out, while Mr Miah had screen-recorded the call but the recording did not have sound.

Rahman wept as he told the court Mr Miah had ordered his wife to attack the children and he killed by accident when he was trying to defend them.

He said: ‘I put both my hands around her neck. She dropped to the floor. I was shocked. I was panicking.

‘Then I picked up the phone and I called Miah back and said, “Because of you this has happened”.’

Jurors saw footage of the video call with Mrs Begum lying lifeless in the background with her son crying next to her, before Rahman put his wife’s body into the suitcase and threw her into the river.

He told jurors: ‘I don’t know what I was thinking. I was panicking so much. I don’t know how and why I did it.’

Rahman said that he had thought about calling the police but he did not know the address he was at, adding: ‘I wouldn’t be able to explain everything.’

Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward said: ‘CCTV footage shows the defendant pulling a suitcase outside the block of flats, to the railings above the river which was nearby, pushing the suitcase over the railings into the water below.

‘If not already dead by then, she would inevitably have drowned.’

Rahman told the jury he had previously seen Ms Begum hitting their two-year-old son, leading to the earlier assault, and that she had earlier threatened that she would drink bleach to kill their unborn child.

Ms Ledward said: ‘For some time up until her death in April 2023, all had not been well with the marriage between Ms Begum and the defendant.

‘Ms Begum had started a relationship with a man closer to her own age, Shahin Miah.

‘Mr Miah says they were intimate with each other over videocalls and that they hoped in due course to be together.

‘Suma was open about this relationship with Shahin Miah on her TikTok account.

‘According to Mr Miah, the defendant was not happy about the relationship either, and threatened him a number of times.’

Ms Begum planned to leave Rahman to be with Mr Miah and tried to get her husband to help her get Mr Miah into the country, the court heard.

On February 6 last year Ms Begum sent videos to her boyfriend on WhatsApp showing scratches to her neck, the court heard.

She said Rahman had ‘come to kill her’, had ‘taken her breath way’ and ‘almost killed me around my neck.’

Then on April 24 last year the couple and the children moved to London, staying in a flat with a relative.

After dumping his wife’s body, Rahman left the flat just after midnight pushing a buggy with both children inside.

CCTV showed Rahman making his way to Brick Lane in east London, trying to find a shop to enter.

He was seen by an off-duty social worker and when questioned said he was buying lollipops for the children, the court heard.

She thought this unusual and called the police, ushering Rahman into a nearby shop when he remained until officers arrived.

They returned to the flat but police decided the children were safe with other family members present and left.

On the morning of April 30, Rahman took a train to Bournemouth before coming back to London that evening, the court was told.

His landlady Bibi Begum, who had been left with the children, called police who searched the flat and found Ms Begum’s mobile phone.

Rahman was arrested in Whitechapel on May 2 last year and, when told he was being arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, said: ‘She’s not my wife, she’s my friend.’

A post-mortem found a scarf tied tightly around Ms Begum’s neck and a pathologist concluded the cause of death was consistent with ligature compression of the neck.

Ms Ledward said: ‘It is clear this young woman was no longer happy in her marriage, she was fairly openly in a relationship with another man, and she had expressed the desire to leave the defendant – something about which neither he nor her family were happy.

‘But whether he was motivated by rage, shame, or pure jealousy, or a more complex mix of cultural expectations and emotions, may not matter.

‘The prosecution say that, bearing in mind that rapid, determined and callous response and what can be seen the video, at the time he caused her death he clearly intended to kill her or at least to cause her serious bodily harm and therefore he is guilty of murder.’

Rahman was assisted in court by a Sylheti interpreter but has some knowledge of English, while Ms Begum spoke little English.

He had denied murder and assaulting Ms Begum by beating but had pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful and decent burial of her body.

Following a month-long trial, a jury deliberated for four hours and 27 minutes to find Rahman guilty of all the charges against him.

Mr Justice Bennathan remanded Rahman into custody to be sentenced on July 31.