A mom and daughter pair embroiled in an enormous net of lies thought they might get away with homicide – actually – due to their TikTok fame.
Mahek Bukhari, 24, and her mum Ansreen Bukhari, 46, have been each convicted at Leicester Crown Court of homicide in August 2023 after they ran Saqib Hussain and Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin, each 21, off the highway in a February 2022 automobile chase.
The court docket heard the 2 girls got here up with a plan to “silence” Hussain from leaking intercourse tapes, utilizing money to lure him in earlier than launching an “ambush”. Hussain was travelling at 100mph when his Skoda crashed, “split in two” and burst into flames, killing him and his good friend Mohammed.
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Jurors discovered Mahek took half within the “ambush” after Hussain threatened to leak X-rated materials he had taken throughout his long-term affair with married Ansreen. The pair had in a relationship for round three years and Hussain “appeared to be in love” together with her.
And chatting with The Sun, Saqid’s father Sajad claims the pair murdered his son due to Mahek’s fame. He stated: “The fame had got to her. She thought she was untouchable, above the law.
“It would have been his first serious relationship (with Ansreen). I think he fully trusted her. He was so young. It might not have been illegal, but it was still grooming, I think. She is older than his own mother. She should have known better.”
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As heard in court docket final yr, Ansreen was keen to finish the connection by January 2022 however Hussain was rising “increasingly obsessive” and would not settle for the tip of their dalliance and “took to attempting to blackmail Ansreen,” threatening to ship intercourse tapes that they had recorded to her husband.
On January 4, Mahek texted her mum: “I’ll get him jumped by guys and he won’t know what day it is.” She additionally despatched a message to Hussain warning: “I am sorry that this year you’ll be gone, Saqib.”
Prosecutors claimed the Bukharis “lured” Hussain to satisfy them underneath the pretence of giving him again the £3,000 he stated he spent on dates with Ansreen over the course of their illicit affair. And after ramming him off the highway, CCTV footage from inside a police station after her arrest exhibits her claiming that she had simply been a witness to the crash, and had nothing to do with it.
She stated in a four-minute-long rambling video: “This silver automobile has come zooming down . . . and reduce into the center, I braked and stated to my mum ‘what is that this automobile attempting to do?’. I stored my distance.”
She also claimed that it was another car that hit the car belonging to Saqid Hussain, and that she didn’t see it.
Mahek was jailed for at least 31 years and eight months, while Ansreen was given a minimum term of 26 years and nine months.
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